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This week, we drive into the wonderful world of transit memes aboard route #4. Plus, the push to close 76 Avenue to cars, the latest efforts to address noisy vehicles, and the need to repair community league facilities.

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Police blotter

• 'Unleashing': Politicians Say Ex-Police Watchdog's Insults Go Too Far

Transit love

• How two transit movements take similar routes to highlight positivity in place of negativity
• Wellbeing In Transit : Design Jam
• May 2011: Leading the Way: LRT Dance Party in Edmonton

76 Avenue

• January 2025: 'Bold' vision for 76 Ave calls for rerouting vehicle traffic
• City hall committee recommends Mill Creek bridge replacements, daylighting creek

Campaign contributions

• Voters told Taproot they want campaign contributions disclosed before the election

Noisy vehicles

• July 2024: $1,000 tickets haven't stopped noisy vehicles: councillor
• February 2023: Obnoxiously loud vehicles will be fined $1K following changes to bylaw passed by Edmonton city council
• February 2021: Edmonton noisy vehicle enforcement pilot sees mixed results

Community leagues

• Report shows community league facilities need $30M by 2028 and $100M by 2035

Rapid fire

• Edmonton mayoral candidate Andrew Knack takes campaign to sidewalk — literally
• Alberta to launch anti-speeding campaign following 'deeply concerning' surge in fatal collisions in Edmonton
• Las Vegas is hurting as tourism drops. Are Canadians behind the Sin City slump?

Election project

• What issues do you care about as you consider who to vote for in the 2025 municipal election, and why?
• A progress report on Taproot's election project
• What we heard at our election listening sessions

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