The cameras aren’t a video feed. They take a snapshot if it detects you are speeding. Don’t speed and your photo will never be taken. The municipality also public releases the location of the cameras and put signage up. You could alter your route accordingly if you wanted to avoid the cameras.

Drivers in the US would start treating that middle light as go and we’d be right back to square one

It is the drivers responsibility to ensure the intersection is clear of cars and pedestrians before proceeding. The green light doesn’t immediately mean go, they may be waiting for a pedestrian to finish crossing or a car to clear after running a red.

Ah but you see, cars are the only viable modern transit so we made our model not count bike trips as valid trips and also made our models assume no one will be biking for the next 20 years cause as we keep adding car lanes and increasing lane number and car speeds, cyclists have been decreasing. We also made sure to not even include existing bike routes in our transportation model.

Minister of car dependancy

Some speed bumps are designed to specifically accommodate emergency vehicles as most emergency vehicles will have a wider axle width than regular cars and trucks.

Its too expensive is more than just an excuse. Good luck convincing a city council to go way into debt upgrading every single road all at once. The people building the road want to be paid, council needs the dollars to pay them and they only have so much. Short of redesigning the entire economy and function of the country, we can’t redesign or fix the roads without money.

What we can do is slowly improve one road at a time with more reasonable spending, for example making significant redesigns when the road is due for rehabilitation instead of just hiring a company to copy and paste new asphalt and paint. It will inflate rehab costs but the improvements will be worth it and save more money over time.

Toronto is in Canada which doesn’t have much of a prison industrial complex. Drivers will have their lisences taken away before they are facing prison time for simple speeding offenses. Extreme speeding or dangerous driving could see people serving time but nobody is going to jail over a ASE ticket. Unpaid ASE tickets will cause your cars registration to fail to renew, making it illegal to drive which often will not result in prison time unless you repeatedly drive without registration/lisencing.

On the one hand, you are right and that is the ultimate solution. On the other hand it will cost millions to redesign one road whereas the cameras cost thousands to operate. The cameras can be used as a band aid solution but when the road is due for repaving or rehabilitation, it should be redesigned.

There could be some middle ground by adding those flappy sticks to narrow the lane and make turns sharper, requiring slower speeds, at intersections until the road can be properly rehabilitated.

Unfortunately it’s just too expensive to properly fix and redesign every road in the city. Even the posterchild of safe streets, The Netherlands, didn’t get safe streets overnight, they did the above strategy of making streets safer when they were due to be rehabilitated.

I think this is called a bike bus and they are becoming more common. Some parents are evening joining in with cargo bikes to help carry backpacks and such.

A big factor is a group of cyclists takes more road space and is much more visible, making it harder for drivers to force them off the road and into the gutters.

Modern mics that clip to a shirt means they can pretty much whisper their review. Doing it inside lets them show how the dining experience is such as the atmosphere of the restaurant, what kind of decorations they have on the walls, how the food looks properly plated instead of crammed into a take out box.

Someone politely and quietly doing a food review doesn’t impact your dining experience much compared to anyone else dining at that table.

More likely they will beg the government to heavily subsidize gasoline or they will beg the government for a heavily subsidized EV.

Electric vehicles still put trie dust into the air.

We could be like Japan where in order to own a car, you have to prove you have somewhere private to park it instead of just putting it on the street.

But it does allow people to build without meeting a minimum parking standard. Progress and change is a slow process. If removing parking minimums makes 3 developments make small apartments buildings with no parking, a few years down the line there may be more support for an entire neighborhood without parking after seeing the success of the first few developments.

You don’t have to buy one, but in North America your mobility will be severely limited unless your are able to live in a select few places, many of which are expensive because despite popilar american beliefs, it is quite desireable to be able to live car free.

Normal looking house with a parking spot under it is an eyesore yet strip malls and walmart parking swathes are okay…

Is someone sitting accross from a camera and quietly talking to it really much different from someone sitting accross from a person and talking to them?

Actually car centric design is one of the biggest factors that contributes to the housing affordability crisis happening in North America. So it is at least partially car dependancy’s fault they cannot afford their own place.

I’ve done really well with the pax 3. I actually think it does better hits that a dab rig. It does need regular cleaning and the higher temp