Alright, I see the disconnect here. You’re talking about rural bike lanes as well as park paths. I’m talking about city bike lanes where you have about 12 meters to work with before you’re up against buildings on both sides half the time.

In that context, there’s only so much you can do to widen lanes, and usually that’s only possible by removing lanes for other modes of transit.

Frankly speaking, bike lanes of other areas have to go based on different standards as they exist for different purposes, so I’ve been isolating entirely to typical city streets.

Most of the sidewalks plus bike lanes in Toronto at least tend to only add up to about five meters in width at most, with plenty being only three meters wide together (two for the sidewalk, and one for the bike lane), with streets being between one or two lanes for the most part, excluding certain major streets.

In this context, it’s crazy to think about bikes and wheelchairs sharing space together. And to be frank, even if the space was double that, I think the difference in typical speed makes such considerations still crazy. Just because some mobility scooters and electric wheelchairs are physically able to go as fast as a slow bike, doesn’t mean that it’s safe for them to share space.

If you can somehow make bike paths on the roads at least four meters wide, then sure, we can talk about that. But I’ve never seen such a thing anywhere in my city. Anything wider than 1.5 meters is simply doesn’t exist, and that is far too narrow to allow both forms of travel to share space safely.

I think there’s a disconnect of what people mean by fast and slow here. A slow cyclist is still going at 15km/h, and 30km/h isn’t even that fast, more comparable to a jogger than a sprinter for pedestrians.

Whereas electric wheelchairs are optimized to move within walking speeds, so about 4-6km/h. Having someone move 5km/h share space with someone going 20km/h+ is like having roads that share 60km/h with those going at 20km/h. Anybody would agree that it’s unsafe for such a discrepancy on a road, so why isn’t it also true on bike lanes?

Not to mention that some bike lanes are actually too narrow for wheelchairs to fit. I know some that are less than one meter wide because our city sucks and we’ve had mayors do their best to abolish bike lanes while others try to bring them back, only for the premier to try his turn to abolish them. Imagine trying to fit anything but a bike when you’re flanked with concrete walls about 70cm apart?

Though I also admit, some sidewalks are hardly any better, and there’s entire sections of the city that have zero side walks as well, but those areas also have zero bike lanes despite allowing cars to go 40km/h or even higher.

To be honest, it doesn’t have to be HSR at that point. Just reliable normal rail would do that, something we’re still lacking for most of the country. Imagine being able to get to any province in a day under $30 (and even cheaper group deals) with zero chances of any delays.

Vacations across Canada, or even just visiting family in another province for a weekend would be easy and regular. Not to mention how much it would bring the nation together. As things stand, the provinces are more separated from each other than the states in the US. We’re closer to the EU than the US in terms of unity. Arguably even worse than the EU. Promoting cross provincial movement for even little things would seriously bring us together, not to mention all the economic benefits.

Agree on all points. Frankly speaking, part of the reason housing prices are as high as they are is because it’s so cheap to continue owning one. And by not selling as often, the market prices soar and it becomes more difficult to have more efficient housing options replace single detached homes.

Not only that, but by increasing housing density, it further increases the city’s revenue and reduces cost of the infrastructure since a similar amount of infrastructure can service several times as many people.

Frankly, I hope that this not only passes, but keeps going for a few years. Homes should never be treated as investments, but necessities of life. Unlike investing in businesses, investing in homes puts greater burden on the economy rather than expanding it, and it’s only a matter of time before the bubble bursts, causing millions to love everything.

Do you have mature filters on? I see at least one adult game on the front page all the time, if not a dozen despite having bought only two or three on my account (compared to the better part of 1k games on my list).

Lots of games with advertised screenshots blocked due to being mature, and lots more that don’t despite being obviously pornographic.

I’ve never heard of the concept of being paid twice a week, unless if you get paid daily but only worked twice that week. Is that really a thing in payroll, because I’ve only heard of biweekly pay to mean once every two weeks.

Semiweekly isn’t a term I’ve ever heard, but I’ve never worked at a bank.

Considering the situation with old-care homes we’ve been hearing these last five years, not even close. Everything from school to medical care, retirement homes and normal homes is a half-century behind in what’s needed. Instead of change we need, we’re constantly fed all the damn feel-good measures that amount to things that should’ve been done decades ago, and no longer fix current issues.

To be honest, I’m guessing that they’re trained to push their body weight into the person’s back, but only trained in a controlled environment with compliant trainers, rather than someone out in the open with others yelling, screaming, and throwing objects while the subject is trying to resist.

Ten guys try to do it with minimal training in terrible situations, and at least one of them is going to fuck it up like this. While on camera since everybody’s got one in their pocket nowadays.

All cops are human, and humans tend to have terrible memories, lie regularly, are morons, and put self-interest over everything else.

The issue is that humans aren’t held accountable for what they do and say in proportion to the amount of power they wield.

While I think this is an issue, I think it’s a minor one. If it was a big problem, we’d see a whole bunch of 2 storey apartments sprinkled amongst single family homes. But I’ve never seen one in all my time in Toronto. Because there’s a whole ton of regulations that make it impossible by just plain making it illegal without jumping through a whole ton of other hoops that make it far too expensive.

I’m not saying fixing this won’t help, but it’s just one of dozens of issues, and a minor one compared to some of them.

Well, that, and Musk’s been torpedoing his own reputation by opening that mouth of his more and more these last few years. Tesla owners always though he was one of them, but he’s been proving them wrong more and more every time he opens that mouth of his, so it’s no surprise that people who are pro-EVs are seriously thinking about ditching Teslas.

The faster the charger, the more powerful of a charging station you need, and the more expensive they are. No matter how fast your car is capable of charging, it’ll be limited by the charging station so the speed itself won’t change.

On the other hand, solid state batteries are supposed to have quite the increase in charge density so there’s the hope that they can be a lot cheaper since you don’t need as big of a battery.

On the other other hand, isn’t the car market slowing down as a whole? Sales seems to have slowed dramatically these last few years as people are relying on other ways to get around more and more, so rather than replacing cars with EVs, it’s more like cars are just plain disappearing, even it’s only at the rate of partial replacement levels.

Promises mean nothing. We’ll start talking once we get some contract written up.

That, and why 2050? It only takes 10 years to build nuclear plants, so why can’t it be 2040? Or just pump in more money into the joint effort into SMRs?

Honestly, until I see money exchange hands, this is no better than China commiting towards climate change goals while simultaneously building up a dozen new coal power plants.

Specifically it’s bad for rich people who own offices, but good for rich people who own businesses that don’t need offices and now aren’t expected to waste money on them.

The issue is that office space is leased for several years at a time, with the shortest leases being something like 5 years. It looks bad on the spread sheets when you have 3 years left on your lease, yet you’re not using those offices because people want to work from home, so a lot of companies are trying to force people to go back to offices so they can get their yearly bonuses, even if it costs the company millions doing so.

Probably more like 4x that, but on the other hand, this is finally a project that is starting to get a little close to the level of added housing that is needed in a single city (presuming this is concentrated around central Vancouver, not being placed around smaller towns or something stupid like that.

Most proposals only amount to 10% those numbers, and 10 years is a realistic time scale as building homes takes time in the first place.

Yes, a few tons of high level nuclear waste from every reactor ever made each year is comparable to covering an entire farm for old windmill blades and burnt out solar panels aren’t comparable. Especially since nuclear waste can easily be recycled into new fuel while supposed “green energy” waste can’t.

Theoretically carbon capture can work, but just like you said, it takes additional energy to capture carbon, and that amount is more than what it takes to produce the needed electricity if you’re using a carbon based energy source.

That said, if you go for something like nuclear, than you do get a clean source of energy that can be used to capture existing carbon. But we’re already at the point where our energy infrastructure is inadequate for just electrifying what we currently have, and in a few years the Pickering plant is going to have to shut down due to being so old (though apparently the government is trying to delay it as there’s no plans for building a new plant of any sort to replace the Pickering plant).

So even in the best case scenario, it’ll be more than a decade before any sort of large scale carbon capture scheme can even be started, as that’s how long it’ll take to build enough new plants to cover existing demand, let alone accounting for future demand.

No, I think such low density housing is actually the cause of the problem, at least around the big cities. Toronto already has some pretty terrible transit times at the average being something like 100 minutes each way due to the distance from one’s home to their work place. Increasing density is the only option, though as a compromise, I think townhouses are extremely good.

Get rid of front yards and just make all the houses long, and you can fit as much as 3 units with the same or greater floor space as one of those houses on a single plot of land. Combine that with tons of mid-rise apartments and independent housing is accessible to even those stuck on minimum wage jobs.

$300k for a house in downtown Tokyo on average. If they can do it simply by having good zoning laws, anybody can do it with a bit of real work.

Not to mention that Finland is known for having zero homeless thanks to public housing as well. Having a safe place to live is the first step to fixing up your life, as if you’re always worried that your possessions can be taken the moment you look away or go do something, there’s no way you can take the time to find a job.

Huh. I must have looked at an early map so Toronto looked different. It’s pretty sad to see so much blue on the final map after all the shit Ford did to us on his previous term.

My bad.