FireRetardant @ FireRetardant @lemmy.world

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Doug is speed running becoming a mini trump

Whenever his milk starts going off at home, he locks it up and brings it to the office to see how long people will respect the locks before throwing away rotten milk.

We can counter trump without acting like him.

Spoiler alert, the law mirrors trumps policy more than it counters his policy. Disregarding environmental protections and disrespecting first nations rights sounds like a textbook trump move.

Silver lining is at least those 9 wards can build them and others can still opt in. This is better than an alternative future where sixplexes are banned citywide and missing middle continues to be missing citywide.

Lets not let perfect be the enemy of good here.

We desperately need proportional representation. Canada can't keep going on flipping sides drastically every 10 years and adopting culture war bullshit all while both sidss point fingers at the other instead of actually creating new solutions to the biggest problems Canadians are facing.

Exactly as planned, with Doug's buddies walking away with a big payday and the average people of Ontario worse off with every day of Doug's leadership

I'd argue comfort could come after more time together in the right circumstances. Many couples choose to live with one sides parents to save money given the housing shortage many countries are facing. The catch is, this typically only works when both the parents and the couple are respectful of each others privacy and boundaries. This often equates to turning a basement into an apartment with sperate bathroom and kitchen/kitchenette.

Love that podcast and I remeber them comparing the mentality they use for roads and how delusional it would be for just about any other engineering field to follow that mentality.

Driving is not a right. Not everyone is entitled to it. Blind people, people under 16, people with certain health conditions, people who have had too many DUIs.

I agree with the rest of your comment but driving isn't a right, we've just built a society where it feels like we have to treat it as a right to be fair.

Designing a 50 zone to be safe at 80 is a big part of why our roads are dangerous and we need to address mass speeding. On a highway it make sense to give more wiggle room with speed, the same is not true for residential roads or school zones.

But then we can't just cut and paste the same lane design regardless if it is a school zone or a freeway.

Pedestrain safety becomes a concern at higher speeds. Collisons become more intense and more deadly as speed increases. The drivers are the problem, not the speed limit.

If the cars aren't able to reach the limit due to traffic, how did the cameras hand out so many speeding tickets?

The cost of a couple of cameras is significantly less investment and significantly less disruption than the needed infrastructure changes. We are talking 10s of thousands to operate the cameras versus millions to rehabilitate just 1 road. We need to fight for roads to be upgraded to safer standards when they are due for repaving.

It should be 1 warning then you get tickets. Right now speeders can keep getting as many warnings as they want and wait to hear on the news when the fines will be implemented.

We need provinces and the feds to communicate and plan together more effectively in both immigrations and housing terms. We need to have a plan to make sure that people coming in have housing and employment opportunities without a public opinion developing that these opportunities are being taken away from existing Canadians.

Currently the feds can say we want to bring in 1 million people, the provinces can say sure but we won't plan for that at all (but they do want the workers) and then throw the feds under the bus when the province faces a housing crisis. Then the local politicians spin it as either exclussively the feds fault or even blame the immigrants, as if they had any say in housing or employment development.

Plot twist, the anime girl's transformations are the villians.

YMMV but i still see lots right around dusk at the edges of wetland areas. Not denying they are threatened but there are still some places they are able to live and those places should be protected. Wetlands do a lot more for us ecologically and hydrologically speaking than just fireflies anyway and are one of the most important ecosystems to be protected.

We need a mix of both. Yes people should be following the rules, but the truth is some people don't and with how normalized driving is, testing standards are pretty relaxed. Most people were tested as teenagers and now just rely on getting tickets to keep us in line, meanwhile many trades and certificates require retesting to stay valid. It would be horrendously expensive to retest drivers, but i think regular retesting should be done and the bill should be paid for by the drivers.

Currently it feels just as safe to do 80 in most 60 zones. Changing the design to make speeding feel more risky and feel unsafe will reduce speeding and let people rely less on their speedometers.

My coworker doesn't like to speed. His new van doesn't have cruise control. The 10 speed automatic transmission can let you creep from 100 to 115/120 pretty easily and relatively unnoticeably on an empty road. He complains how half his time driving hes constantly checking the speedometer and feels he is paying less attention to the roadway because of that. This issue isn't as simple as check the speedometer more often. Vehicle and roadway design plays a factor as well.

Its only been 3 weeks and we don't have much data on how many of them were repeat offenders. We need to give more time for peoples driving habits to adapt to the consequences.

The cameras are much cheaper than cops are for the same level of enforcement and the revenue can be used to further invest in roadway safety like lane narrowing and traffic calming.

The truth is, the speeding issue has been many years in the making as enforcement hasn't been able to keep up with the number of drivers and 15-20 over became normalized. We aren't going to reverse that trend in just 3 weeks.