Cheaper for the industry to manufacture, certainly. Cheaper for the consumer to purchase, I have my suspicions.
I would love to see a return to smaller cars - sedans even - but the shareholders might not like lower profits per unit, so I’m not sure we’re going to see prices plateau let alone decline.
That’s good to hear a reduction was able to be approved. Nine spaces is even enough square footage for an additional apartment per level, if that’s what they were building. It would nice to see more developers push for less parking in favour of more living space.
Surely it’s in their interest, with revenue coming from the housing not the car park. Of course, this is a difficult status quo to challenge. It’s almost as if a building would need constructing on half a parcel, follow the parking minimum, then the units only be rented to people without cars simply to prove it can be done. Then put up a second building.
It would be a bit silly to build a literal proof of concept, though sometimes an example people can lay eyes on is a necessity.
If that fifth of people would attend local council meetings and petition their municipality to remove parking minimums, maybe we’d get housing developments that encourage a car free lifestyle.
A property nearby is being developed into a midrise apartment building with fifteen units. The building itself takes up about a third of the land, and the rest will be asphalt, no outdoor space at all. It could have easily been a 30-40 unit building with a common green space, but oh no where would the cars go.
The only time I’ve needed a new rim, I stopped by a few local shops and asked if they had any singles laying around. The place that had one just gave it to me. Might be worth trying in your area.
[Driver] was found at the scene with numerous illegal narcotics and packaging materials commonly associated with drug distribution…
Police say she has previously been arrested over 100 times, has more than 82 court warrants that have been issued for her, and has received 40 traffic citations.
So, prison, right? Right?
If being arrested every other month for two decades isn’t enough to correct behaviour, it’s time to throw the half measures out the window.
I agree with your sentiment. I think it’s also intertwined with people feeling personally attacked when faced with being wrong about something.
The inability to admit being mistaken is a sad mindset to have.
In a similar vein, I’m sure a Fiat 500 could jump a jersey barrier driving at freeway speed straight at it.
Toronto barriers work well enough for preventing the average vehicle from casually driving through a bike lane to cut a corner or avoid a pothole, while also not being a hindrance for foot traffic.
It’s a pretty good middle ground. If it increases ridership, maybe fully segregated bicycle infrastructure could take root.
This style of barrier has been in use in Toronto for some time, albeit concrete, and they are tall enough that vehicles can’t drive over them without damage. Being waist high (like a jersey barrier) would prevent pedestrians from just walking over them.
I haven’t seen anything to indicate bicyclists have been falling because of this type of barrier.
I suppose there is something to be said for solitary moments. The clandestine excitement is funny.
It brings to mind Daniel Craig in a DB5, nonchalantly scrolling the web, catching a peripheral glimpse of a uniform and peeling out down a staircase.
Call me dull but unless spaces are egregiously hard to come by, I’d pay ~£2 to not babysit a car looking over my shoulder and instead have a few extra minutes with my better half.
There are some little organisations like Pedal People that collect and dispose of waste via bicycle. I don’t have something like this in my area, but it’d be nice.
I can’t speak for Sudbury, but I remember Toronto doesn’t even start plowing until 4-5cm of snowfall. In Finland, is the city of Oulu, where they give priority to cycle paths, plowing within a few hours of 2cm snow. The snow services in Oulu guarantee there will always be less accumulation that what it takes for Toronto to even begin.
Additionally, they don’t just push it off to the side, and call it done. They pack some of it down into a walkable and rideable surface. This allows year round use of the cycle network, with the largest dip in ridership being 20% when it’s colder than -20C.
Of course, this all must start by having such a network in the first place. Sidewalks are a good starting place. Hopefully, if Sudbury can keep them clear, the usage through the winter will help justify a higher budget to build out walking and cycling infrastructure.
Having experience in waste handling, I’m not sure how that estimate at the end came to be, indicating a year long effort to collect and transport the material. It is a remarkable amount of material to be disposed of like this, but it certainly wouldn’t take a year to tidy up.
Statistically, that is true.
In my albeit anecdotal experience, these ‘very basic’ appliances suffer their own variant of faults. They take no modern design cues; they are more prone to reliability issues from bargain bin components; or they somehow cost only slightly less than their fancy feature rich counterparts.
Just because I don’t want off-white equipment in my kitchen, I shouldn’t have to buy an ‘AI’ oven. But the companies want to know when and what I’m cooking so when I go to the grocery in the middle of dinner prep, the AI price labels can adjust a bit higher because they know I need an ingredient right now for a meal I’ve already started making.
The variant of fault these normal appliances have aren’t truly a fault. It’s intentionally made to be less appealing, less reliable, and more expensive than it should be, so when we’re looking at a white oven in the store for $800, we’ll opt instead for the $1,000 Alexa powered stainless steel double range that’s sitting right next to it.
Oh and if you’re in a spot and need to finance your new appliance, sorry but our financing isn’t available for the budget tier.
This comment kind of went off the rails, didn’t it.
If that’s a one, what’s a twenty get me?
As with anything, nuance exists. Does a monthly / annual donation to a FOSS developer count as a subscription?
I have a few things I’ve paid once for additional function or even banner ad removal that don’t receive updates. Though at a glance I don’t see anything I have installed that has a recurring cost and receives no updates.
I suppose there’s a fine difference between what I consider a subscription, and supporting active development of something I use regularly, but that difference probably varies person to person.
Kill death ratio - or rather, kill save ratio - would be rather difficult to obtain and more difficult still to appreciate and be able to say if it is good or bad based solely on the ratio.
Fritz Haber is one example of this that comes to mind. Awarded a Nobel Prize a century ago for chemistry developments in fertilizer, used today in a quarter of food growth. A decade or so later he weaponized chlorine gas, and his work was later used in the creation of Zyklon B.
By ratio, Haber is surely a hero, but when considering the sheer numbers of the dead left in his wake, it is a more complex question.
This is one of those things that makes me almost hope for an afterlife where all information is available from which truth may be derived. Who shot JFK? How did the pyramids get built? If life’s biggest answer is forty-two, what is the question?
I wish I could share in your optimism.