Bike lanes need to be installed where people want to go.

Turn the grave into a peat bog to recover the carbon he’s released i to the atmosphere

I’ve had good luck with my automatic electrocution traps. My toddler can’t get in there, and I got sick to having to manually kill 5 mice a week from the no kill traps.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-radio-canada-ad-free-proposal-1.3871077

The vast majority of far right recruitment seems to be focused on young men without healthy outlets for masculinity. Fight Club (1999) was built on the same principle. We often decry the outcome, but I think efforts should be more focused on avoiding the conditions that lead to this in the first place.

Anti-immigration sentiment is an outcome of income inequality.

Healthy masculine outlets like scouting and sports seem to be reducing.

Community outlets took a dive through COVID. Increasing sense of community can divert some of that energy to positive outlets.

Presumably, when we build infrastructure, we are doing so because moving people and goods will provide an ROI.

In practice we rarely quantify the ROI, and the whole process is very unscientific.

If you decided to go active transportation instead:

$15Bn would make 150,000km of should bike lanes (enough to cross Canada 19 times) or 15,000km of multi-use path (cross Canada twice).

Or you could build 625 lane km’s of road. (So 312.5km of two lane, or 156km of 4 lane)

I’m big, so id rather it happen to me than someone else.

The new daycare program has had a lot to do with bringing that number down.

I’ve been hit as a pedestrian that many times.

I don’t have bad luck, I’ve just walk a lot in the last 40 years; 2 of the scooter and one of the bicycles happened on pedestrian streets and the riders were making eye contact with me. Guess they though I would move. They thought wrong and didn’t account that I stable base when about to get hit.

The last scooter hit was in a blind corner, but low speed, so I was able the hug the guy to stop him from falling (skill I learned on the blind corners of the LG metro stop when two trains roll in simultaneously). The last bicycle hit has someone riding on a sidewalk assuming I’d move onto the road for them while jogging. I didn’t move for them, and they miscalculated the physics of about 300N the edge of their handlebars.

For the cars, one was a driver hopping a curb, knocking me into a park. Cop said they wouldn’t follow up because I didn’t have a plate. One was a car turning right on red when I had a pedestrian walk signal, cop said RtOR is legal so I should have been looking out for the car. Last one was a plow pick-up backing into a crosswalk (and me) to turn around; while I had a plate and a witness that time, cops said their investigation couldn’t confirm the truck hit me, I might have just slipped on the ice.

You’ll also notice that 5/6 low speeds i could have avoided, but chose not to, while i had 0 agency in all three car collisions.

The carving space out of the Commons part means we should be segregating bikes and scooters from pedestrians, but at the cost of car space, not sidewalk.

I don’t disagree; my point is that these statistics are coming out woth an agenda behind them, whem the total number of annual scooter injuries is half that of car fatalities (2k) alone. And two orders of magnitude smaller than car injuries (119k).

We brush off the massive carnage as daily business (I guess 5x daily) but stress some electric scooters.

We’ve got jurisdiction’s, like Ontario, actively trying to remove safety features for vulnerable road users, and this messaging is part of that endeavour.

I’ve been hit by 3 scooters (I don’t know of they were electric or not) 2 bicycles, 2 cars, and 1 trucks so far this lifetime.

Now, I do weigh north of 100kg, so im a thick target. But, in 5 of those crashes I had no injuries, and the hitter had no to minor injuries. In 3 of those crashes I’ve had minor to major injuries, and the hitter had no idea I even existed. I’ll let you devine which were which.

Anyway, the solution is more tarmac in the Commons dedicated to slow speed vehicles, preferably that isn’t carved out of the <5% we dedicate to pedestrians.

On the upside, I’d rather this twat ride a scooter where damage is mostly limited to himself, than drive a car and injured others instead.

But what’s the injury rate for scooter km’s travelled?

We use that to obfuscate car injuries, why do scooters get a different treatment.

Exactly. Consider it like family X making $220,000 combined income, but paying $44,000 in federal taxes. The remaining $176 is the family’s money to spent (at least before the provincial tax slice).

Edit: and to be clear, $440B is federal taxes. Some of the things you mentioned are paid for by provincial or municipal taxes.

We built car dependancy starting in 60, though about 80 in ernest.

We fucked our cities over 40-60 years, and we’re seeing the turning point happen in real time right now. Most cities have the policies in place now, or coming in the next 5 years.

On the roads side there’s a 45 year lag for recapitalization. On the construction side, harder to tell.

It won’t happen in my lifetime, but it will happen in my kid’s.

Stay the course and we can do it.

Because we tax ~0.44T on our 2.2T GDP. Or about 20%.

Canada total spending is $450B

But $120B of that is discretionary excluding transfer payments.

So we’re looking at a whole of government reduction of $18B for 15%. Transport Canada spends $25B on roads.

Stop subsidizing inefficient personal vehicles by making people absorb the real costs of them and we can make that cut in seconds.

Thankfully, lessons from Europe seem to be penetrating Canada now; at least in the more urban areas. I saw some fantastic progress living in Montréal. Ottawa has the right ideas despite the master plan not being clear to people yet. Toronto was on the right path, but we’ll see what provincial pressures do. My current town of Kingston is late to the party, but we’ve got momentum in the right direction.

We spent 50+ years changing our built environment to “optimise” for the car, even with the best intentions it’s going to take time to change again.

Roads should be designed so that it’s uncomfortable to drive above the targeted speed limit.

Things like road narrowing, speed bumps, bulb outs, lane adjustments, speed humps, pavement decorations, one way chokepoints, etc.

Current the Ontario road geometry supplement requires streets and roads to be geometrically designed to be at least 20kph higher than the posted limit. Well guess what, you want to naturally drive the design speed instead of posted.

Lower design speeds and target the remaining maniacs.

Quick video explaining speed of the measures I brought up (and why they work): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmxBcrXpClg

I live in a suburb of Kingston, I’m with you. City says it wants to increase transit and active transportation modal share, but the budget jsut goes to… more care lanes.

That said they have been putting in protect bike lanes as they redo streets, so there are some positive things happening here.