Zoom, zoom, zoom...NOT!
The news, announced in today's Province, that Oak Bay will be the first city in Canada to allow electric cars on its streets is both welcome and puzzling.
Didn't I just read that Quebec was making the same announcement, the immediate result of which is that the Zenn is stepping up production in its Quebec plant?
And while I welcome electric cars and look forward to seeing more of those then the behemoths we now have on the cit streets, I will look forward to seeing LRT trains running along street tracks on time and every two minutes in rush hour and every six minutes otherwise, just like in many cities in the world.
Our city driving has now become an unmitigated horror.
The only thing worse is the pathetic excuse for public transit. Daily, I am told of twenty and twenty-five minutes waits. Puleeeeeese!
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Read the Climate Action Plan David, if you want to see unmitigated horror. Not only is the Gateway Program foisted off as a "benefit" for the climate, but there is NOT ONE single mention of passenger trains (other than Sky"train") in the whole bloody document.
Japan, Europe, and now even the car driving capital of the world, California are exploring implementing or expanding their high-speed rail systems. Venezuela, for pete's sake, has a better passenger rail system than we do, to say nothing of Europe, Japan and China.
How many more decades do we need to fall behind in this here podunk corner of the earth before we finally get our acts together and install some real trains? Sure it would show Skytrain up for the farce it is, but hey, change is tough.
I don't even know about climate change, but it seems to me that the assumptions of the Climate Action Plan are a farce; in my opinion it doesn't matter. The effect of cars on urban environments has been ugly, both in terms of urban design and pollution concerns, and the sooner we change that, the better. If it has a positive effect on the air we breathe, then all the better. If climate change is slowed by our actions, all the better. But cars are almost solely responsible for the widespread environmental destruction in our cities known as suburbia, and the sooner this process is stopped, the f_____g better.
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