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Currently in news (various) Toronto Mayor (from Ont., Canada aka Great White frozen North) John Tory just arrived in Austin for 3 daze tour. Seen here (Page 4, March 17, 2015):
http://eedition.toronto.24hrs.ca/epaper/viewer.aspx
Stops include SxSW music festival and visits to tech companies including Giggle (sp? Hehe).
Quote Tory " I'm about getting jobs, jobs and jobs here."
So here's a thought for Mister Tory? Huge transit system in our "Greater Toronto Area". Diseasal buses, (electric) subways, (electric) streetcars - overhead wires. If our Mayor "had a brain", our "TTC" would start building bicycles and trikes with muscle (see Canadian "Power-Assisted Bicycle", aka "Ebike").
Instead, southern Ontario heavily addicted to the 20th-century horseless carriage ("car", "SUV"), with a few multinational manufacturers with branch plants pumping out more weapons of mass death and destruction every day. (Province - think "State" - then sucks up taxes from these manufacturers, used to pay heavy health care costs, road repairs... long list.)
"Ohhh, but it's sometimes cold and wet!" Yah, see "warm clothes". Plenty of roadways (farm lands paved over) to put up parking lots. - Oh wait. I feel a song coming on. "Paved over paradise to put up a parking lot" - IF Canadians "had a brain", roads and pathways and parking lots can be roofed over with overhead solar panels.
Companies in Italy and India are already developing "solar roofs" over THEIR roads?
"But our roads aren't safe for cyclists!" Easy solution. (Already happening in cities in Europe. Paris, Oslo, etc.) Just BAN (or severely restrict use of) THE CAR (for personal use in urban spaces).
Mayor Tory? For some this scenario is a "no brainer". Wanna be a hero in your home town? Or the next in a row of Mayors to perpetrate the death and destruction of 20th-century LARGE, HEAVY, Monster Vehicles designed to go waaay faster than 99% of urban road speeds?
http://eedition.toronto.24hrs.ca/epaper/viewer.aspx
Stops include SxSW music festival and visits to tech companies including Giggle (sp? Hehe).
Quote Tory " I'm about getting jobs, jobs and jobs here."
So here's a thought for Mister Tory? Huge transit system in our "Greater Toronto Area". Diseasal buses, (electric) subways, (electric) streetcars - overhead wires. If our Mayor "had a brain", our "TTC" would start building bicycles and trikes with muscle (see Canadian "Power-Assisted Bicycle", aka "Ebike").
Instead, southern Ontario heavily addicted to the 20th-century horseless carriage ("car", "SUV"), with a few multinational manufacturers with branch plants pumping out more weapons of mass death and destruction every day. (Province - think "State" - then sucks up taxes from these manufacturers, used to pay heavy health care costs, road repairs... long list.)
"Ohhh, but it's sometimes cold and wet!" Yah, see "warm clothes". Plenty of roadways (farm lands paved over) to put up parking lots. - Oh wait. I feel a song coming on. "Paved over paradise to put up a parking lot" - IF Canadians "had a brain", roads and pathways and parking lots can be roofed over with overhead solar panels.
Companies in Italy and India are already developing "solar roofs" over THEIR roads?
"But our roads aren't safe for cyclists!" Easy solution. (Already happening in cities in Europe. Paris, Oslo, etc.) Just BAN (or severely restrict use of) THE CAR (for personal use in urban spaces).
Mayor Tory? For some this scenario is a "no brainer". Wanna be a hero in your home town? Or the next in a row of Mayors to perpetrate the death and destruction of 20th-century LARGE, HEAVY, Monster Vehicles designed to go waaay faster than 99% of urban road speeds?