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FireRetardant

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  • In an extraordinary move, the Premier of Nova Scotia will use his powers to block bike lanes in Halifax

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  • Not to mention that reducing drivers often reduces car crashes and injuries, so long as the drivers that switch to biking are adequately protected. So overall there will be less strain on healthcare and emergency services. This is even before factoring in the health benefits cycling has over cars. Someone who switches to biking for 20 years is likely to have less health concerns as they age.

  • Car brains suffer from psychological captivity. It's like Stockholm Syndrom.

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  • I've never heard the 1/4 version of that saying. I've always known it as 6 in one, half dozen in the other.

  • Caught

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  • I like how it seems he keeps gripping it throughout the whole ordeal.

  • Prime Minister Mark Carney is under intense pressure from the United States and Car Companies to make an electric vehicle U-turn.

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  • Even disiel electric is much better than private automobiles we should start by building electric but any transit is better than none. We need to prioritize laying tram and train tracks. Once those are laid we can easily upgrade to electric.

  • Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corporations

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  • I'm not defending the cuts, i said i wasn't thrilled about it. If cuts are happening, at least the cbc decides what is cut.

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  • He is writing a new book that is titled like an autobiography but actually horror fiction about the reality we are in. This is just part of the marketing for said book.

  • Statistics Canada says income gap hit record high in first quarter

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  • people see to vote squarely against their own best interests<

    So much of this it is unbelievable. I have a buddy who has been unemployed his whole life, lives with his mom, who both rely extensively on physical and mental health services while both collecting disability pay. He is also bisexual. He is a trump supporter and votes conservstive in every level of election. I literally cannot comprehend it.

  • The police chief in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, says he doesn’t want to enforce a new state law that prohibits drivers from parking in bike lanes

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  • In our current timeline they would, and they'll avoid the ticket and get the cyclist charged with "assault on a motor vehicle". Then the cop will break the reflectors on the bike and find any relevant laws to try to ticket the cyclists, even issuing a hand written note that says they are suspended from cycling for 90 days.

  • Alberta Premier Danielle Smith suggests premiers start constitutional talks

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  • I feel like smith is less about electoral reform and more about "Alberta has the right to extract as much oil as it wants, in whatever method it wants and is exempt from any and all regulations"

  • Prime Minister Mark Carney is under intense pressure from the United States and Car Companies to make an electric vehicle U-turn.

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  • I'm not exactly anti EV. If a car must exist it might as well be electric, but just converting every car into an EV is not enough. Plus there are other massive benefits to transit like increasing density and diversity in zoning, which could increase housing supply and make small businesses more versatile and resilent.

    Transit is also much cheaper than car ownership which lifts low income people up by reducing their transportation costs. Its also more fair, a 14 year old, a blind person, or someone with a suspended lisence could all take transit when none of them should be driving.

  • Prime Minister Mark Carney is under intense pressure from the United States and Car Companies to make an electric vehicle U-turn.

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  • EVs are a halfway solution anyway. We need to be investing in mass transit. If every car turned into an EV, we would still have politicians like Doug Ford trying to tunnel under a highway to end gridlock, we would still have motorists claiming bikes cause congestion, we would still be creating tonnes of tire waste and microplastics pollution, people will continue to die on roads while accidents could get worse due to extra weight, and our roads will wear down faster and cost more to maintain due to the extra weight.

    In the grand scheme of things, EVs solve almost none of the major problems presented by cars.

  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • Ill take getting hit by the deforming guardrail and being pushed away over being pinned between the car and the guardrail. They could also design a guardrail that is more rigid. We protect drivers enough already, we shouldn't comepletely throw away pedestrian safey because some driver cant keep their car on the pavement.

    I've also seen many bent guardrails from traffic accident and unless hitting it at one of the ends, the deformation is 2-3 feet max for most cars unless going excessive speeds. There would still be room for a pedestrian to be safe if we provided that space between the guard and the sidewalk.

  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • They could just send a crew out with a regular mower. Im also nearly certain ive seen a mower on a tractor reaching over guardrails on a highway before.

    That guard rail is there because the book told the designers to put it there and thinkkng outside the book hasn't been allowed for decades in road planning, its all cut and paste.

  • Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corporations

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  • I'm just trying to look on the bright side and glad the cbc still exists, albeit with less funding. I've grown numb to politicians, liberals included, not following through with promises. We never got electoral reform and how many times have liberals ran on that promise?

  • Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corporations

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  • The conservatives wanted to fully defund the CBC and unfortnately most of Canada has fallen into the two party trap. I'm not thrilled about the cuts but hopefully letting the corp decide what has to be cut is less harmful than it could be otherwise.

  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • North american traffic engineers don't give a shit about how many deaths their design causes so long as the road is up to spec according to outdated books that prioritize speed and throughput.

    If that barrier was more for peolle falling down the hill it would be taller in size. If I crashed my bike into that barrier i would just end tumbling over the barrier and down the hill.

  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • Even a sober driver obeying the limit could collide with a pedestrian on the sidewalk. The driver could have a medical emergency and lose control, the vehicle could break down and lose control.

  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • They could definitely design a mower that is able to reach over the guard rail. We could also just send a different mower to do the gaurd rail sections.

  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • Agreed, and with the design of some of our roads, maybe its a good thing to discourage certain pedestrian crossings. It isn't fair pedestrians may have to walk a significant extra distance to cross, but there are also some sections of road like curves and merge lanes that are more dangerous to cross illegally.