This city needs to fucking deamalgamate 10 years ago. Holy shit I hate the stranglehold these dumbass suburban consullers have over these types of decisions.

Like fuck,

"Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley said he's not against the idea of four units in principle, but worries the transit system isn't yet up to supporting those kinds of densities in the suburbs. In his view, even three units isn't sustainable without proper transit, since it risks turning backyards into parking lots."

He's got it backwards, I don't know if it's out of stupidity or willful ignorance. The current single family homes and shitty road layouts of suburbs are the reason they're hard to serve with public transit. You can't design an obvious straight path where a route will go, it's got to wind around weirdly. And each stop might serve ~30 people within a reasonable walking distance. If you allow higher densities that same stop can serve many more people making it much more profitable (not that every transit line needs to make a profit) and useful to people.

And what the fuck is he talking about turning backyards into parking lots? Such a car brain take.

Can someone get me into a room with this guy so I can talk about urban planning at him for several hours?

It's after 9pm somewhere

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Privatized railways are mostly failures most of the time. Besides Brightline, and I think a bunch of the Japanese railway companies, no nation really has privatized passenger rail. But I think the Japanese system has a weird setup.

Actually, I think Italy and Germany have started allowing private companies to operate on their railways, but I think they need to fit it between the nationalized services. I could be wrong about that tho.

I'll get him the audiobooks then lol

No but really, he's not stupid, I'd say willfully ignorant or naive (I'm not sure of the right word.) Plus very boomer minded about cars and the way a city should be focused around them.

I'm sure his financial supporters don't help too much either.

It's wild that this city (read: the suburbs and rural communities that shouldn't be a part of the city of Ottawa) decided the dude with ZERO political experience and ZERO urban planning interest was the right choice for mayor.

It might be me being very tuned in to urban planning, but it feels like across the world, and even Canada, there's a huge wave of urban planning progress being made. People are begining to realize that we cant continue to build car dependant suburbs, but our own mayor hasn't caught up to this fact. There's huge improvements in Montreal, Toronto, even places like Calgary and Edmonton are getting proper biking infrastructure. Granted, do see it slowly progressing in Ottawa, but my god it could be done so much faster and with less of this bullshit.

Like, maybe before this he didn't know anything about cities and shit like this, but you fucking hire someone who does and have them explain it to you. You're a mayor now, you MUST be into urban planning and all it entails.

Apologies for the long rant, this bugs me to no end. Can I protest somewhere? Can I give the mayor some book recommendations? (Walkable Cities by Jeff Speck, and Strong Towns by Charles Marhon.)

I know on Windows there's settings to enable moving torrents automatically when the category changes. Also make sure to enable automatic torrent management otherwise I don't think it will work properly.

I'd also check the default download paths too, there's also a setting to keep inprogress torrents in a different spot. Hope that helps

I kinda slowed down on his videos since that Tom Nicolas video, but I watched his video from a few days ago about blimps because blimps are cool. But it just seemed like a corporate ad. The amount of the video that's renders of products vs actual products is pretty bad.

It didn't feel like a science video about blimps, it felt like half blimp startup ad, half simple blimp explanation. I don't know, it just felt a little devoid of depth.

I hate the passive way headlines are written when it comes to crashes involving bikes. "Tossed" is such a light word for what happened. "Passing RV" as if it wasn't the cause of it all and just happened to be there

That driver should never be allowed on the road again. There's no excuse.

Glad the guy is alive.

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I guess so lol, it's not all bad and it's not lost forever. You can build on those parking lots eventually and upzone the nearby streets.

It also seems like it could have really good connections to active pathways to the north and the rest of the neighborhood. The single family homes aren't mcmansions and have fairly small lot sizes. And there actually seems to be a bit townhouses (row houses? the houses that share walls with other houses lol) which is good.

At first glance it was worse than I thought.

There's more details that could make it better or worse, specifically with the road design in the middle of the new development there, if traffic is slow enough it could be nice. Lots of trees would help tons too.

It's not the best designed place of course, but it isn't the worst thing in the world and there's probably potential for improvement down the line.

Appreciate you sharing this

The design is very human.

Wow, what an amazing use of land within walking distance to a transit station. My lord is city is incredible.

Side note, looking on satallite view at the intersection and holy shit that needs to be fixed, it's terrible. It is 68m to get from one side to the other, crossing 8 lanes of traffic, 10 if you want to include the "bike lanes".

I've included an image of the original Godzilla to give a sense of scale (he was about 50m tall.)

(Not complaining at you OP)

Edit: To be slightly positive, it's really neat to see "cannabis" listed very casually. I actually read over it without thinking about how weird that would have been like 10 years ago.

"I am Justin Rozniak I'm the person who is talking right now. My pronouns are he and him."

Not an answer to your question, but if the instruments are USB (I assume they are), you could also checkout Clone Hero. It's a free PC version of Rock Bank/Guitar Hero, people will make custom songs for it as well, I'm sure some have drum tracks too.

I hadn't even considered the fires affecting the amount of people out there. Excellent point.

https://youtu.be/6_bSx4eqtdE

Yes, you're 100% in it being cheap.

I think I should have been more clear, it was cheap to build, but now look at it. Not just from it needing to be repaired, but peopels time is wasted, more busses need drivers and diesel fuel, how many man hours were spent investigating the solution, testing, and implementing. There's many downstream effects of it being cheaper initially that can be hard to see or measure.

But yes, it was cheap to build, especially the eastern extension which is a good thing, transit projects in NA are WAY too expensive.

I followed Catherine McKenny after the election happen and saw what they were doing with their organization, its all about cities and building good cities, and city finances. It's so sad seeing how passionate they were and ARE about making good cities for everyone, and then seeing dipshit here complaining about a single road being open to everyone instead of only people who have cars.

I love when these anti bike people go out at the quietest hour possible to film. There was another old boomer ass radio guy who was on a recreational path during a Wednesday afternoon or something and used that to show how few people bike. Imagine if we used the night time numbers for the Queensway and used that to justify shitting it down.

Not to mention, it takes time for people to change their habits, you can't open and close and road randomly and inconsistently (not the QED is currently like that) and expect people to use it. Again, imagine if the highway was only open during weekend for recreational drivers.

And anecdotally, I live near the canal, on a street that actually touches QED, and I have noticed more traffic... for about 1 hour during rush hour, it's not a big deal at all. I also have use it many many times for both fun on weekends, and for work, I can take it fairly quickly to get to ByWard and I'm ALWAYS in a better mood at work on those days.

I hate how hostile Sutcliffe is to anyone outside a car. It's madness to be a mayor in this day and age and not seeming to get it at this point. Like where does it come from? The data is just so clear on how good it is for EVERYONE, including drivers, to make sure everyone except drivers has a space in our cities (people walking, biking, riding transit).

Yes, it seems like a really recent term to me. I first heard it when the writers strike began and never before that.

When I think streamer I think of people on Twitch or YouTube who stream themselves. No idea where calling streaming services/sites "streamers" came from but it always confuses me.

A saying I use all the time is, "If you think a professional is expensive, just wait until you hire an amateur."

I wonder if at any point someone will just give up admit it was fucked from the moment they decided to keep the wrong type of train for the service they should be running, and just buy the correct type of train. A proper metro train like every other other city trying to run a mass transit line with high frequency. Ideally something with radial seating, digital signage and wayfinding. Some stations in Japan even have info above where the doors will be in the station showing how full each car is.

We'd need to rebuild all the current stations to be high platforms, and finish the under construction stations to also be high floor. It's a lot of money sure, but no one will care in 50 years, they will just be thankful to have an amazing metro connecting the entire city. The Shinkansen went 2 times over it's inital budget, but no one gives a crap now a days, they're just happy to have it.

We're the capital of Canada, we need and deserve better than this shitty system.

Oh, and add platform screen doors to all the above ground stations, partly for safely, partly for weather, make a huge different to quality of the service.