Months after cancelling the construction contract for a new downtown pedestrian bridge in the face of “unforeseen challenges,” city officials have called off the project altogether....
Its a shame when projects like these are cancelled. It really shows how "car centric" North America can be in that a simple pedestrian bridge is harder to build and costs more then one designed for cars.
In a time when we should really be shifting to a more "pedestrian focused" design and "livable cities" in general, project like these are in the correct direction.
But when people walk across a pedestrian bridge society profits. Healthier population both physically and mentally. Greater happiness and less stress. Less pollution, pretty much all these benefits put less "burden" on peoples pockets financially, either both directly and indirectly through taxs.
Unfortunately probably all hard to quantify though.
Campaigners have called for “mini Holland” walking and cycling schemes to be introduced in towns across Britain after the first London pilot scheme produced dramatic results....
In Albuquerque NM, they not only built world class BRT infrastructure -- they leveraged it to transform old Route 66 into a safer, more people-friendly corridor. Albuquerque Rapid Transit, or ART, is already a big ridership success, but there's so much more potential. So today we're taking a tour of the US's only Gold-rated BRT...
Examples like these show its never to late to shift a city from a "car centric" design to a pedestrian focused design, with bus, tram, light rail, or subway routes.
Cities should be designed for people first, as opposed to cars first.
Pedestrian cities are also in a way cheaper in terms cost & mantinace of infrastructure, such as less traffic lights to maintain. Traffic lights are by far the biggest money sink for a financially struggling city, not to mention large parking lots that provides no return on investment.
“What is up with some people’s complete disrespect for our public spaces? It doesn’t require a huge amount of effort and discipline to keep our streets, sidewalks, parks and shorelines clean. Yet some of us appear incapable.”
Condos need to be built for families, give me more three or four bedrooms in the city, and make it more affordable.
Condo developers can't build these affordable three or four bedrooms though, because on average these layouts are about 20% larger in size to their comparable European unit layout. This is all to due to building code, and something called "point access layout" vs "common corridor layout".
If we could get more families in the city buy making costs comparable in sq/ft to a single family home in the suburb we could make cities more enjoyable and give people a better sense of belonging, as opposed to just commuting in for a few hours.
Fyi, my fiancée became a Canadian resident a few years back. When you become a new resident Canada gives you a welcome package, in this package you get a one year voucher for free visits to any national park (ie, not provincial parks).
So the closest national park to us is like 6-7 hours away. We do the drive and have no way to use this voucher, even in the one year window. To add (if I remember correctly) it was also only a voucher for a day visit, so parking...
I have a feeling like 90% of these voucher do not get used.
It reminded me of the time a handful of years ago VIA Rail did a promotion for anyone under 18-19. You would received a voucher to travel VIA rail from one side of Canada to the other. I don't remember the specifics but it was only for the train ride with unlimited stops 2-ways.
Absolutely, a welcome package for a new Canadian is not something we as Canadians should be angered about.
You don't freak out when the new person that just joined your office you been working at got a new pen, and maybe a shinny new stapler?
What we really should be angered aboot, and ashamed of as Canadians, is that its actually cheeper for us to go on vacation to Europe for 2-3weeks instead of being able to visit parts of Canada. A train ride to Vancouver is just as expensive as a plane flight if not more, and if you want to go to any of the northern parts you will need a car. Not to mention the price of accommodations such as a hotel or airbnd.
There should be more trains that take you to national and maybe even provincial parks and surrounding towns.
Though they would also need to be financially sound at the time they became a full on citizen, own a car (to make us of the day pass free parking), and be able to take the time off, to actually go see these parks.
Remembering the voucher kicks in on the day of becoming a citizen and then expires exactly in exactly 1 year.
I guarantee you if someone becomes a citizen in their teens and originally immigrated on their own with no family (which happens), they would more then likely not benefit from this, and probably not even have the means to see these parks in that one year window, and make use of the free day pass voucher for free parking...
Seems like it was 12-25 years of age and 150$ for a month of unlimited travel. It was a good deal but only available for 1 month, and i was already to old :'(
Would of been nice to use the pass and only sleep on the train as opposed to finding hotels.
Absolutely, though I do wish more of the public and local governments would follow this type of mentality. Seems like most local towns and cities have lost this.
Seems like everything's more along the lines of "if it's not completely broken, then don't bother fixing or even improving it."
I have tested both lingding and linkwarden. Lingding was easy to use and did the basics in bookmark management. Though I settled on linkwarden for its saving of webpages in different formats with folder and subfolder organisation in the UI.
Both are good options, but linkwarden seem to be more power user focused.
Good estate ( jlai.lu )
City scraps downtown pedestrian bridge project in Guelph Ontario. ( www.guelphtoday.com )
Months after cancelling the construction contract for a new downtown pedestrian bridge in the face of “unforeseen challenges,” city officials have called off the project altogether....
‘Mini Holland’ scheme in Walthamstow hailed as major success as traffic falls by half, cycling and walking scheme is model for other cities ( www.standard.co.uk )
Campaigners have called for “mini Holland” walking and cycling schemes to be introduced in towns across Britain after the first London pilot scheme produced dramatic results....
New addition, not sure on name yet... ( lemmy.world )
Neighbor across the street has a litter to re-home so we're doing our part!...
They Transformed a Nasty Stroad With Bus Rapid Transit (CityNerd) ( www.youtube.com )
In Albuquerque NM, they not only built world class BRT infrastructure -- they leveraged it to transform old Route 66 into a safer, more people-friendly corridor. Albuquerque Rapid Transit, or ART, is already a big ridership success, but there's so much more potential. So today we're taking a tour of the US's only Gold-rated BRT...
Were living in the 21st century — let's learn to pick up our own trash ( cultmtl.com )
“What is up with some people’s complete disrespect for our public spaces? It doesn’t require a huge amount of effort and discipline to keep our streets, sidewalks, parks and shorelines clean. Yet some of us appear incapable.”
Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore ( www.blogto.com )
Condo sales numbers in and around Toronto have taken a drastic tumble so far this year, and now that the market is starting to lean towards buyers ...
Federal gov’t sparks outrage for giving newcomers free access to Canada’s parks ( torontosun.com )
While many have to pay to access any of the dozens of parks across the country, there is a group that has been granted free admission.
The only way things can get better is by acknowledging that things aren't as good as they could be
Truck hits recently renovated Queen and Dufferin bridge, road closures in area. ( www.cbc.ca )
The bridge had just gone through extensive renovations and updates with construction finished late summer of 2023....
Staples plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it. ( www.thecooldown.com )
Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs....
Rivian Follows Tesla’s Lead, Opens Charging Network to Other Brands ( discuss.online )
According to shareholder letters, Rivian plans to allow charging of electric vehicles of other brands in the second half of the year.
[Help] Looking for a 3D scan of a Utility Gas meter in Ontario. ( lemmy.world )
I am hoping someone may have the ability to scan the front and top of a utility gas meter that looks like the one above....
Former chemical engineer in the coal industry, urging B.C. municipalities to change the term natural gas to "fossil gas" ( www.cbc.ca )
"The term natural gas does not explicitly convey the fossil origins of such gas, leading to potential misunderstandings and hampering policy-making,"
It's a healthy and sustainable routine ( startrek.website )
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