Nouveau_Burnswick @ Nouveau_Burnswick @lemmy.world

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Exactly. Consider it like family X making $220,000 combined income, but paying $44,000 in federal taxes. The remaining $176 is the family's money to spent (at least before the provincial tax slice).

Edit: and to be clear, $440B is federal taxes. Some of the things you mentioned are paid for by provincial or municipal taxes.

We built car dependancy starting in 60, though about 80 in ernest.

We fucked our cities over 40-60 years, and we're seeing the turning point happen in real time right now. Most cities have the policies in place now, or coming in the next 5 years.

On the roads side there's a 45 year lag for recapitalization. On the construction side, harder to tell.

It won't happen in my lifetime, but it will happen in my kid's.

Stay the course and we can do it.

Because we tax ~0.44T on our 2.2T GDP. Or about 20%.

Canada total spending is $450B

But $120B of that is discretionary excluding transfer payments.

So we're looking at a whole of government reduction of $18B for 15%. Transport Canada spends $25B on roads.

Stop subsidizing inefficient personal vehicles by making people absorb the real costs of them and we can make that cut in seconds.

Thankfully, lessons from Europe seem to be penetrating Canada now; at least in the more urban areas. I saw some fantastic progress living in Montréal. Ottawa has the right ideas despite the master plan not being clear to people yet. Toronto was on the right path, but we'll see what provincial pressures do. My current town of Kingston is late to the party, but we've got momentum in the right direction.

We spent 50+ years changing our built environment to "optimise" for the car, even with the best intentions it's going to take time to change again.

Roads should be designed so that it's uncomfortable to drive above the targeted speed limit.

Things like road narrowing, speed bumps, bulb outs, lane adjustments, speed humps, pavement decorations, one way chokepoints, etc.

Current the Ontario road geometry supplement requires streets and roads to be geometrically designed to be at least 20kph higher than the posted limit. Well guess what, you want to naturally drive the design speed instead of posted.

Lower design speeds and target the remaining maniacs.

Quick video explaining speed of the measures I brought up (and why they work): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmxBcrXpClg

They solve the average driver. A certain number of drivers are jsut shit that need their licences removed, there's no question about that.

But let's consider the majority, myself for example.

I'm keenly aware of vulnerable road users, and active at the municipal and provincial levels in improving road safety, I take active and public transportation whenever practical.

When I lived in Montréal, I rarely sped, logs of questionable accuracy show somewhere around 10% of the time. Now that I'm in Kingston it's around 80% of the time.

I'm even a less aggressive driver in Kingston, but the geometry of the roads here leads me to unconsciously speed a lot.

There are more design choices than just roundabouts...

Fun thing about design changes, the motorists get less frustrated.

A big part of our frustration whole driving is that (at least in Ontario) design speed MUST be at least 20kph higher than posted speed.

So yeah, you get frustrated doing 30kph on a road designed for 60kph. You get less frustrated on a road with no posted limits anywhere that jsut naturally nakes you want to drive a speed that feels safe, and happens to be 30kph.

Replace speed cameras with road diets and other geometric choices that restrict traffic speed without relying on drivers following rules (they don't)

The S in IoT stands for security

FML 🫡

It should be a crown corporation to count as part of NATO spending.

Or swap the opaque fence for a transparent fence (glass, chain link, netting, etc)

So you're saying you need to start updating systems now, even though you won't see the results for 10-30 years?

You're getting it!

Trials like these can lead to permanent car free streets. Worked in Montréal for all the summer streets.

Canada can into space?

Canada HAS into space. Now we will again, which is a sad state of international affairs.

Is this Canada or HomeAssistant?

I don't appreciate you using my toddler in your comic without asking us first.

An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada (the Accessible Canada Act)