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[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I agree, but unfortunately that's basically never going to happen. At least not in our lifetimes.

One of Canada's greatest flaws is that we followed the US into car-dependent, suburban-sprawl at the catastrophic expense of everything else. We have spent decade upon decade investing unfathomable amounts of money into building the most dysfunctional cities imaginable and ensuring there is no practical way of getting in or out of them except a car.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

We built car dependancy starting in 60, though about 80 in ernest.

We fucked our cities over 40-60 years, and we're seeing the turning point happen in real time right now. Most cities have the policies in place now, or coming in the next 5 years.

On the roads side there's a 45 year lag for recapitalization. On the construction side, harder to tell.

It won't happen in my lifetime, but it will happen in my kid's.

Stay the course and we can do it.