TOGETHER WITH | | COMMUNITY EVENTS | 🚘 Oak Bay Car Collector Festival: Step back in time with collector cars from various decades. Attendance is free, running from 10am to 3pm on Sunday, July 23 along Oak Bay Avenue. | 🏎 The annual Jaguars On The Island (JOTI) - Concours d'Elegance car show will be held on Saturday, July 22 at Windsor Park between 9am and 3pm. Proceeds from the vehicle participants' fees and a silent auction will go to support Victoria Hospice. | 🧘🏻♀️ Yoga continues at Willows Park from 6 to 7pm every Tuesday evening through August. | 🎶 Summer Concerts in the Park - Soul Shakers is set to take place Thursday, July 27 in the grassy area of Willows Park. | 🎻 Oak Bay Creekside concerts to be held Friday, July 21 from 6:30 to 9pm at the Bowker Creek Walkway. |
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| | COMMUNITY NEWS | ⛵️ Safety issues found at Oak Bay Marina could cost more than $12M to fix. An engineering firm that conducted the assessment recommends strengthening steel columns in the breezeway and closing the lower level deck until the structural supports are repaired or replaced. [Capital Daily] | 🚴♀️ Two new Oak Bay bike routes, proposed as “neighbourhood bikeways” rather than bike lanes, will include pavement markings and signs, as opposed to safer, protective barriers. [Times Colonist] | 🧯 A boat caught fire in Oak Bay this week near the Royal Victoria Yacht Club. The Oak Bay Fire Department shared a photo, showing the boat mostly submerged and smoking. [Oak Bay Fire Department] | 🚨 Two drivers were caught nearly tripling the speed limit in Oak Bay last Friday night. The first driver was going 107 km/h on Beach Drive, which is marked as a 40 km/h zone. The next evening, around the same time, a different driver was dinged for going the same speed along the street. Both men were fined $483 and will have their vehicles impounded for seven days. [Oak Bay Police] | 🏘 Oak Bay resident suggests rezoning the Uplands would be an ideal option to increase housing supply in the community. [Times Colonist] | 🗓️ Summer is in the air! Paint Works has been servicing Victoria for 20 years. They look forward to hearing from you, and having you in their schedule. Book now!* | *Sponsored Listing | Do you enjoy riding a bike in Oak Bay? | | | P.S. Did someone forward you this email? Subscribe here. |
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| | PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT | To join the conversation, become a member of the Oak Bay Local Facebook group. | Distracted driving | An Oak Bay cyclist, who was nearly hit this week by a slow-moving white jeep at an intersection, reached out to the group in search of witnesses who could help. The incident took place at 2:30pm on Wednesday, July 19, when a white Jeep going to wards Oak Bay Avenue from Fairfield Road on Richmond Road did not stop at the intersection on Richmond. | The cyclist was bruised and injured while riding their white e-bike. Thankfully the driver did stop and apologize, saying their large vehicle had a blind spot, however the cyclist remains quite shaken and wants to understand what happened, believing the driver could have been distracted by their phone. | Other Oak Bay locals in the thread commented that they have seen an increase in distracted driving by both drivers and cyclists, and said many don’t come to a complete stop at intersections. While distracted driving affects everyone, cyclists are significantly more vulnerable if they are hit by a vehicle. Stay safe everyone! | |
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| | | Holding back on building bike routes | An Oak Bay local sparked a dialogue this week on the development of bike lanes in the community. It was posted after a letter to the editor in the Times Colonist suggested Oak Bay was rightly holding back on developing biking infrastructure, saying that its quiet streets are better off without them, at least for now. The commenter said Oak Bay was behind the City of Victoria in terms of building infrastructure for people to live in rather than driving through. The top contributor to the group suggested that the world needs to move beyond being dominated by private vehicles and praised the work done being done on Richardson to build more dedicated cycle routes through Oak Bay. | The letter was titled “Thanks council, for holding back on bikes” and was posted on July 14. The author of the letter said they do ride bikes, but suggested the community take a holistic approach. There were over 100 comments to the post, and some unexpected responses from vehicle drivers and bike riders. One said the development of bike lanes is essential and city spaces should be built for people over cars. Some commented against the bike lanes in Victoria, saying they are disruptive to some local businesses. Bike lanes are a divisive issue at the best of times, and this thread was no different. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, there are some thoughtful suggestions on all sides. | |
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| | IN OTHER NEWS | | A disoriented-looking racoon wandered around Oak Bay this week | One local suggested that someone from the community check on it to make sure it wasn’t suffering. The original poster commented that they rarely see racoons walking around in the daytime, so they called Wild Arc as a precaution. Other community members commented that they were also familiar with this particular racoon, who is apparently blind, and often hugs fences and feels around to finds its way. Several others said he is known in the community to be a resilient, independent little guy. | |
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