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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Road budgets and projects go way over all the time and the vast majority of those projects still go through.

    His excuses for what is causing congestion are statistically wrong, he blames the solutions to congestion as the causes.

    The province has hinted at planing some other transit projects so lets cancel new projects that would work better in unison.

    He explicitly states that new solutions cannot slow down private automobiles, despite them be unfairly catered to for decades while every other transportation method is left underfunded, unreliable, and is already much slower than private automobiles.

    He then has the audacity to claim this will lead to amore inclusive solution when he is explicitly excluding cyclists from safe infrastructure.








  • Public transit is a service, and should be funded like a public service rather than for profit. A downside i can see to this would be a city refusing to upgrade or fund their own transit, letting Uber fill the gap and letting uber decide the pricing, which will eventually result in much higher pricing than a publicly funded system.

    Publicly funded systems can also take advantage of city planning, like where specific stops can be, requiring certain developments to build a bus stop, and providing bus rapid transit lanes & priority signals to ensure buses remain on schedule.





  • Part of the problem is we would still have to enforce people going to the designated areas. Even with the designated areas, there will still be discarded needles and people doing it elsewhere. Its similar to how you’ll often see litter next to a public garbage can.

    Not saying it isnt worth it, but just the sites alone aren’t enough to end the needle litter and people using in other places. We would need to encourage the sites use and discourage use/disposal elsewhere.