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Originally Posted by redforever
You ask me what you should have done? You know what, if it is that damned hard to drink and make arrangements for after the fact, then drink at home or don't drink. You say you could not get any of your buddies to take you home, they were in the same shape as you. So tell me, how did they get home? They all drive home while drunk as well?
Having programs to get people home which add to the taxpayer's expense is neither logical nor fair. First of all, except in very big communities, it is just not feasible to say, add more buses, add more taxis. There are bars in just about every community across Canada, no matter if a big city like Calgary, or a small town in rural Saskatchewan where I grew up, with a population of 800. You really think it is feasible to put in transit of any kind in rural Canada? And don't try and tell me rural folks don't drink.
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Now you are just being arguementative.
First point- some people walked home. Some car pooled, and I'm sure some drove drunk. But that isn't what my point was. My point was what could I have done. Yes, I could live the rest of my life never leaving my house. But that isn't a reasonable solution.
Let's get back to the problem. People are driving drunk. Where are they driving drunk? Home from bars and parties. What can we do about it? That's where I'm getting at.
As for your arguement about the towns of 800 people- as I said let's deal with the solvable problem. 2/3 of Albertans live in cities of over 1 million people. So because the one solution doesn't work for everybody- we should abandon it? And in your town of 800 people- I can't see many places not being walking distance home.
You are right that "don't drink and drive" is a simple concept. However people still do it. I and a few others here are proposing solutions. Some of them may work, some may not. Like the breathalizer-starter idea; at least that person had an option that we could explore.
I would also like to hear how putting more taxis on our streets would cost taxpayers money. Or using taxes from alcohol sales to subsidize transit would cost taxpayers money.
4x4- I've heard the arguement about it taking money off their tables. I guess I would say that the public interest in having more taxis available out weighs the fact that their industry has been a bit of a monopoly for so long. The number of taxis has not gone up proportionally to Calgary's population. 1 year ago we had as many cab licenses as we did when we were 700,000 people. Then they added less than 10% more licenses- so now we have cabs for 770,000 people.