A lot of them aren’t given the problem of planning a city, its more like" hey this road is busy, design a bigger road since its so busy". But then their superiors belittle and threaten to fire them if they recomend building a tram line instead of 6+ lanes of car traffic. “The tram line isn’t by the book”, “we aren’t some experiemental urbanist city” or “the projected level of car service isn’t adeqaute for our predicted car traffic using models where the only transport option is driving”

Isn’t Canada too big for bike lanes? I can’t bike from Toronto to Halifax! And the train would take ages to go from Montreal, QC to Victoria BC. Why are you assaulting my freedom of movement by pushing these things on us!?!?!? /s

That is 100% part of our problems with housing, road maintaince and municipal budgeting. We don’t have to sprawl just because we have massive amounts of land, we can also build denser cities, transit oriented develolments, and walkable neighbourhoods.

Cities in Europe have managed to build modern neighbourhoods without sprawl, we could too. We need to stop using the excuse “my country/province is too big for transit” when the majority of people travel within their own metropolitan area on a daily basis.

This is where im blessed, my body very very rarely bruises so most people have no idea how clumsy I am on a daily basis.

This was my first thought. Instead of an app and relying on a consuner to have the technology, why dont we put in a parking machine that can accept cards and cash?

Friendly reminder that nearly any canadian city of substantial population had electric trams decades ago. If we could build electrified transit then, we could certainly build it now.

How useful really is transit if everyone has to drive to their train station? The fact they greenlit so much rail should mean they should be fighting for more bike lanes, not less.

We can’t afford to build rail but we can afford to pointlessly rip out bike lanes and still not fix traffic.

I doubt machine learning has been very accessible to most home buyers, especially a few years ago. Plus real estate business makes it sound like they do all that kind of work for you, and realistically that should be part of their job. I should be able to ask a realtor for a full site assessment including any environmental sampling that had been done and maps like flood maps.

Oh no, the property value which had doubled over the past 10 years might drop a little bit. This has completely ruined my finances and now I’ll never get to retire in an even bigger house.

Part of the problem is we refuse to upgrade our voting system to some kind of ranked ballot system. By sticking with the current system, it supports the idea that only 2 parties really have a shot and you “waste” your vote when voting outside of them.

So canada doesn’t own or operate a significant portion of their own mines. Canada’s own nickel capital, Sudbury, is basically owned by Vale, a Brazilian mining company.

How the hell does it make sense for canada to mine foriegn nickel in guatemala yet let brazil take a huge chunk of the profits from nickel within our own country? Capitialism and labour exploitation, along with some not to smart sales to foriegn companies I guess.

Why should an entire province get the final say in a project that realistically only impacts a couple neighborhoods at best?

It wouldn’t be as much a problem if there we dedicted lanes for mopeds and other similarly sized vehicles.

What would your solution for a blind peron be in this car dependant world? Having multiple transportation options is the most fair system. Right now in many places the car is the only option.

The city could at least communicate with the development plans and purchase the required land for public stops. The city could mandate certain developments require this kind of transit inclusion to the planning process. The city can also mandate for denser zoning around major transit corridors.

The college I went to maintained a roundabout for buses. The college had to fully cover the costs of pavement maintaince and snow removal. It seemed worth it since tons of their students were arriving by bus, because it delivered them to the center of campus.

We pay for it by redeveloping massive multi lane roads into multi transit corridors when their major repair/resurfacing work is due. A few places have used this strategy to redevelop car centric areas into areas with better transit and pedestrian accesses.

They may be horribly ineffecient but that seems to be the standard design. Plus compared to pretty much any other land use, even the most optimized surface level parking lot is an ineffecient use of land.

Are you proposing a society where we never leave our cars and every business is a drive thru? Even if you drive to a wal mart today, they still have to have the door open for you to shop there.

And our current urban fabric is everything is a road, you can’t go anywhere unless you drive a car. Can’t afford a car? Too young to drive? Have a health condition that prevents you from driving? Want to choose a car free life? Too bad.

If we can make a devloper build parking, we can make them build transit stops. The car is not the only thing we can force developers to accomadate.