Honestly, Canada would need to build a second dedicated line just for passenger trains to make it anywhere usable. Currently, passenger trains are last priority on the tracks to freight trains, so consequently they take forever to go anywhere. I just double checked on the website, to travel from Toronto to Vancouver it takes roughly 5 days and costs $1050, and to return it takes roughly 4 days and costs $700, for a total of 9 days travel and $1750.
The same trip dates on westjet will take roughly 10 hours and cost $1450.
It’s just not feasible if the train takes longer and costs more, who would take that option?
The irony is if more people use bikes there are fewer vehicles on the road, making traffic better. Why people are so opposed to bike infrastructure is always so confusing to me.
I agree with your points but I’m curious what your solution is to single family homes that are being rented out? The obvious one is everyone who wants to buy a place is able to, but not everyone wants to buy yet (younger people, people who want flexibility, people who know they are moving [only in that city for school], etc). Having some corporation own everything is also obviously the worst option, but that only really leaves the government and the mom and pop operations (that is people who own 1 place and buy another to rent it out). Should all single family homes be run as co-ops? Torn down and rental apartments built instead?
Again, I agree that single entities owning multiple rental places is a bad thing, but there doesn’t seem an obvious replacement. So I am genuinely curious as what can be done?
I read a good sci-fi book called “Six Wakes” by Mur Lafferty that touches on this topic, you might enjoy it.
In the distant future cloning has become commonplace, but is used as a continuation of a person’s life. Ie a person is born, lives there life, and at the end they are cloned and their memories transferred over to the new body, and life goes on. Also, a person would make “backups” of their consciousness in case they were killed/died accidentally, and would be “reinstalled” in a clone.
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EU institutions commit to boost cycling across Europe (transport.ec.europa.eu)
To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord?
Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?...
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The monotheistic all powerful one.
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