People quickly forgot they went through this.

This right here, “the second lane was always blocked with parked cars.” Pretty much sums up most of Toronto’s city streets. The second lane (or far right lane) is usually unusable because of parked or stopped cars.

And as soon as a side walk gets widened or a bike lane goes in to use the space more efficiently motorists looses their shit.

Bloor has really become more enjoyable as a street, and easier to traverse by car, bike and on foot.

Are you the Transportation Minister for Brampton. /s

She should have went to Arby’s.

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Maybe just Ontario? Though there does seem to be a common recurring theme in Canada these last few decades where its easier to not take action and say we tried everything, rather then taking action and solve problems.

Its always easier to take no action and not upset one group or another, zero-sum game, as opposed to take action and have a small group upset at the end result.

In both cases the Canadian in charge of the action, or inaction, says “Sorry, eh”.

This whole removal of bike lanes on Toronto’s roadways that are classified as streets is so backwards.

Streets are for the people that live on them. Streets are a destination points.Roads are designed to get you from point a to point b. Roads are not a destination and don’t care about the community they cut through.

We are removing key infrastructure in our cities that directly supports the residents living within these areas, and replacing it to serve suburban commuters that live outside the city.

We need to make city centres more enjoyable and walkable. We need to make city centres more accessible to families. Having people move out of the city and commute into it everyday is the opposite of this. We need more choice in housing sizes and units layouts, we need more schools that are not at capacity.

There needs to be a greater push in how North America classifies its roadways. There are key differences between streets, roads, high-speed roads, highways, and interstates. All these classifications impact how these roadways serve the people around them, and how people use them. For example you would not put a sidewalk next to a highway car lane.

Instead these last few decades its been either “strode’s” or highway. In some cases even strode’s acting as highways as well.

Found the DHD, covered by some shrubs.

Mad Men the picnic scene.

Littering wasn’t a concern back then. When Don casually tossed the can aside, I was astonished and confused. Then to make matters worse, Betty shakes off the rubbish from the picnic blanket onto the ground before heading to the car. Not a care in the world at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roREnVhd_og

Try to do the same today and a park would be filled with plastic wrappers in a few days.

Something similar was done in Japan for walking and texting (or looking at your phone screen). Makes sense the same would translate to all modes of transportation including cars.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200810-yamato-japan-smartphone-ban-while-walking

Though, jail time may be a little harse for communicating with people over a phone.

This just in, water is wet!

We have a similar issue in Toronto where our tram operators speed between stations/stops, and go in and out of turns at ludicrous speed (as if they were driving a car).

Trams as well as buses end up backed up as a result because of this excessive need to speed. One of the reasons I somewhat hate Toronto transit operators as they toss us around inside the transite vehicles.

Ludicrous speed definition: https://spaceballs.fandom.com/wiki/Ludicrous_Speed

Most roundabouts in Ontario are two lane roundabout. I have yet come across a three lane or four lane roundabout

My general consensus for two lane roundabouts is treat the inside of the roundabout as you would a regular signaled intersection, in that you dont change lanes inside the intersection.

If you came up to the intersection on the right you exit straight, or turn right. You can’t change your mind inside the intersection and turn left from the right lane. (Though this does not seem to stop a few motorists I have seen).

Alternative view of roundabouts (same principal), treat them like a continuous roadway. If you are in the right lane you dont suddenly turn fully left. Similarly if you are in the far left you dont suddenly turn fully right cutting everyone behind you off.

To add, if you did enter the roundabout incorrectly and ended up going in another direction then you originally desired, its generally best to continue through and course correct on the next roundabout or car park/parking lot.

Spooky action at a distance.

This was most favourite (only favorite) location within LA California. Its a shame this is only a outdoor shopping center and the tram is only used as an attraction/ride. Everything else I saw outside this location was too car centric and repetitive in layout and design.

This entire one block community is a high density, car free community with shopping, restaurants, entertainment and transit. Its a perfect example of what the rest of LA and north America should strive to be. Excellent use of space and planning.

Everything about this intersection looks to be done so well. Excellent planing and conception.

I love how the tram way changes to cobblestone once it crosses the street, prevents vehicle traffic from turing onto the tracks.

Politicians take interest.

Wish we would stop adding lanes already. The 401 is a complete mess as it is already in design and interchanges.

Get all trucks to stay in the right lane, and make highway layouts more efficient by not having that right lane disappear into a offramp. Also remove trucks off the express sections altogether. Resever the express to light vehicles. Add surcharges to delivery and trucking companies exceeding certain vehicle sizes. Add surcharge zones for car traffic in downtown neighbourhoohs.

Stop expanding suburbs and instead add density to cities and towns. Add alternative transportation such as trains, subways, trams, buses, cycaling infrastructure, pedestrian sidewalls and trails. Convert office spaces to lofts and apartments, allow low rise 4-5 story mixed use developments on existing parcels with point access stairwells.

Add reasons for families to stay in cities, make it affordable compared to a suburban single family home so they can live where they may work as opposed to comuting into the city by car.

Any chance Jellyfin and Finamp have a music playlist and mix building feature?

Plex has this with Plexamp but I have not had a chance to look into jellyfin to see if a plugin offers something similar.

I hate building playlists, Plex offers a few different options like sonic sage, sonic adventure, artist mix builder, and automatic mixes based on past listening history.

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I would really like to get a critical mass group going in toronto so we can bike all the major streets in Toronto in groups of hundreds or more.