NarrativeBear

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NarrativeBear,

But I don’t want to buy all new hardware! Thought MS was sustainable. Instead MS is BS.

NarrativeBear,

App recommendations please!

NarrativeBear,

I just realised iTunes (store) is no longer a thing. Everything’s just streaming now.

Time to bust out the walkman

NarrativeBear, (edited )

I agree with your first statement, police are not therapists. They are not trained for this. They are basically a “sledge hammer” and everything is a “nail” per their training.

But, blambing the parents for calling for help should not be something that should be stigmatised in this way. Sure, maybe calling the police may not have been the best option, but the system is really failing us in general when people ask for help.

Calling a help line should really direct you to more appropriate service. Though this may not exist.

Edit: thanks for everyone that read the article (doing the lords work). The parents called a help line and the help line forwarded it to the police. So the systems for help failed the people they are designed to help in a way.

Also no need to downvote snownyte so badly guys!

NarrativeBear,

If a blind man were to ask a police officer for help crossing the road, the cop would probably shoot all the drivers.

NarrativeBear,

Very interesting, this even more so highlights how the system is somewhat failing or overburden in a way.

Even calling for assistance or help down the right channels can lead you down some unwanted or unseen directions.

I suppose that this same reason is why homelessness is as big of a issue, people don’t ask for help because it usually ends up being more of a burden then the situation they may already be in.

NarrativeBear,

The cops “we need go shoot this guy before he harms and kills himself” probably

NarrativeBear,

Prime location, good bones.

NarrativeBear,

Its a shame when projects like these are cancelled. It really shows how “car centric” North America can be in that a simple pedestrian bridge is harder to build and costs more then one designed for cars.

In a time when we should really be shifting to a more “pedestrian focused” design and “livable cities” in general, project like these are in the correct direction.

NarrativeBear,

Your right, its sad because its true.

But when people walk across a pedestrian bridge society profits. Healthier population both physically and mentally. Greater happiness and less stress. Less pollution, pretty much all these benefits put less “burden” on peoples pockets financially, either both directly and indirectly through taxs.

Unfortunately probably all hard to quantify though.

‘Mini Holland’ scheme in Walthamstow hailed as major success as traffic falls by half, cycling and walking scheme is model for other cities (www.standard.co.uk)

Campaigners have called for “mini Holland” walking and cycling schemes to be introduced in towns across Britain after the first London pilot scheme produced dramatic results....

NarrativeBear,

True, the article may be old news, so here is an article celebrating the success of the same location after the last 10 years.

standard.co.uk/…/mini-holland-cycling-scheme-sadi…

Wish more cities would take note and move away from car centric urban and suburban design.

NarrativeBear,

Make them pay! Use the money to make cities less car dependent and more livable. Make public transits accessible and implement trams/subways/trains.

Increase neighbourhood densification at the same time, by taking space back from car infrastructure. ie. massive car parking lots that are impossible to walk across.

NarrativeBear,

New fave sub!

NarrativeBear,

Only way to make people change their ways, if it hurts the bottom line then action is usually taken.

This is why government regulation should be harsher, and fines should be proportional to company income.

If the fine is too low it just becomes the cost of doing business.

NarrativeBear,

At this point I think the TTC should just start announcing when service is actually operating.

They are pretty much closed evey weekend and during the week its one large delay from start to end.

NarrativeBear,

Wtf

NarrativeBear,

We’ve always done it this way

They Transformed a Nasty Stroad With Bus Rapid Transit (CityNerd) (www.youtube.com)

In Albuquerque NM, they not only built world class BRT infrastructure – they leveraged it to transform old Route 66 into a safer, more people-friendly corridor. Albuquerque Rapid Transit, or ART, is already a big ridership success, but there’s so much more potential. So today we’re taking a tour of the US’s only...

NarrativeBear, (edited )

Examples like these show its never to late to shift a city from a “car centric” design to a pedestrian focused design, with bus, tram, light rail, or subway routes.

Cities should be designed for people first, as opposed to cars first.

Pedestrian cities are also in a way cheaper in terms cost & mantinace of infrastructure, such as less traffic lights to maintain. Traffic lights are by far the biggest money sink for a financially struggling city, not to mention large parking lots that provides no return on investment.

NarrativeBear, (edited )

How is it that “floating stops” designed like the ones shown below (which are great IMO) are considered to be different?

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The only difference I see is instead of crossing a highspeed car lane, one would cross a slow speed cycling lane designed with the intent to protect individuals on bicycles.

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But somehow instead something like this is considered “safer” where transits riders step out into a cycle lane to board a bus or tram.

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Or something like such where pedestrians step out onto a roadway.

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NarrativeBear, (edited )

TTC barely runs during the week when getting people to work, and when its needed the most for local Torontonians during the weekend it just chooses to shutdown entirely.

A transit system like the TTC should be designed to move people around in a city during their normal day to day lives, this includes weekends for shopping and relaxation? Not just work.

Is the TTC only to get people to work? If so, maybe workplaces should be funding it more?

Talking about work life balance, our non-working hours are just as important, if not more.

NarrativeBear,

Condos need to be built for families, give me more three or four bedrooms in the city, and make it more affordable.

Condo developers can’t build these affordable three or four bedrooms though, because on average these layouts are about 20% larger in size to their comparable European unit layout. This is all to due to building code, and something called “point access layout” vs “common corridor layout”.

If we could get more families in the city buy making costs comparable in sq/ft to a single family home in the suburb we could make cities more enjoyable and give people a better sense of belonging, as opposed to just commuting in for a few hours.

NarrativeBear,

I have tested both lingding and linkwarden. Lingding was easy to use and did the basics in bookmark management. Though I settled on linkwarden for its saving of webpages in different formats with folder and subfolder organisation in the UI.

Both are good options, but linkwarden seem to be more power user focused.

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