• turnip@lemm.eeBanned from community
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    2 days ago

    Why should the poor fund the rich to replace their 3 year old Lexus with an EV, surely funding mass transit makes far more sense?

    Why do we even want to push car centric urban sprawl in the first place during a massive housing shortage where everything should be being rezoned for density, or the fact we are borrowing public money that we then pay perpetual interest on to gift to for-profit corporations. This whole thing is messed up, and its no wonder Canada has so many problems when our politicians are this corrupt.

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      1 day ago

      Canada has yet to tariff ebikes/emobility from China. That is a massive personal freedom for Urban/near Urban locations where most of Canadians live, and provide great car replacements at huge energy/mile efficiency gains, and often faster trip times, and lower cost, than personal cars (including parking) or transit.

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        11 hours ago

        We don’t need to make more suburbs out of forest or agri land.

        We need to render the current sprawl into housing for our current circumstance which is massively dense construction. If we do it right we’ll reverse some of that sprawl.

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      2 days ago

      Publicly funded mass transit sounds amazing. I’m in a suburb and hate that I have to use a car to get to most places.

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      2 days ago

      Mostly because voters don’t prioritize mass transit at all.

      Politicians are not corrupt, they just follow the whims of the voters who aren’t rational.

      Affordable housing is the same problem, voters don’t want it yet because it would crash existing house prices.