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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
I like the appeal to emotion of black and white photo contrasted with colour.
I also like how none of your super hip urban utopian dreamworld pics display -30 and foot deep snow for 7-8 months/ year.
Lastly, we made our bed. We can’t recreate a city like what your picturing. So let us drive our cars a normal speed for the love of god.
Cars are actually amazing. They get me places about 100x faster (well, I guess now 70x faster for no reason but okay) than if I walked or went and acquired this pandemic virus on public transit.
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Also can we admit there is a grave difference between Stephen Ave & a typical suburban boulevard.
People keep citing these BS machinations of walkable communities and applying them to places with 2.5' wide sidewalks separated from the roads by 4' that people commute through for a kilometer. Even if those communities are walkable the interaction with traffic is just a completely different thing.
If there are some very specific roads that need to go down to 30 or 40 maybe that's something to look at, but I still generally think speed limits are a terrible idea. There needs to be some other more effective method of traffic enforcement that isn't so easily corrupted for the purposes of generating fines and doing something to prove we have done something.
This is where the changes will be felt, and this is where the enforcement will happen. Nothing like the hipster European utopia
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9766...7i13312!8i6656