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Originally Posted by Fuzz
We don't have a train that goes north because Bronconnier pushed throguh the west leg so he could make big bank on the land he owned. The north central line had always been the next route to happen based on massive ridership demands, and he went and did that. Here we are 20 years later, still getting ####ed by ####ty politicians looking out for their own interests above what is actually needed.
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The West LRT had an approved alignment for almost 20 years by the time it got approved. When it (West LRT) was approved, the North LRT only recently had the Nose Creek alignment being approved (before anybody bothered asking if mass transit should be built where people can actually use it). It wasn't until after the West LRT was built the Centre Street alignment was approved.
The North Central line was never the next route.
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I’d guess most households make around 100 purchases of stuff a year, and since many are impromptu and unplanned, even if you remember to bring a reusable bag 80-90 per cent of the time, you’re still going to wind up accumulating 15-20 of them over a year.
I’m confident if I went to the homes of the people who signed off on the policy, I’d find a bag of bags hanging on a foyer hook or stuffed in a shelf, like the rest of us have.
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In the Waste and Recycling mindset, those 15-20 bags bags being hoarded in your house for 100 purchases are 100 bags not making their way into landfills. It was the landfill capacity info that drove the decision more than any environmental argument did.