True, the article may be old news, so here is an article celebrating the success of the same location after the last 10 years.
Wish more cities would take note and move away from car centric urban and suburban design.
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.
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.
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.
'This decision allows pedestrian bridge options for the area to be evaluated with further input from the community'
Months after cancelling the construction contract for a new downtown pedestrian bridge in the face of “unforeseen challenges,” city officials have called off the project altogether.
As stated in a post on the city’s website on Friday, plans to build a bridge over the Speed River connecting The Ward with Downtown Guelph have been scrapped. Instead, city officials will look for ways to include pedestrian flow into another nearby project over the river.
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.
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.
London’s pioneering “mini Holland” low traffic neighbourhood is “synonymous with the changes that need to happen around the world”, according to the capital’s walking and cycling commissioner.
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.
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.
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.
How is it that "floating stops" designed like the ones shown below (which are great IMO) are considered to be different?
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.
But somehow instead something like this is considered "safer" where transits riders step out into a cycle lane to board a bus or tram.
Or something like such where pedestrians step out onto a roadway.
Blind people say they do not feel safe having to cross cycle lanes to catch a bus.
Yet more hate towards cycling, and somehow if a floating bus stop is located between two care lanes its perfectly acceptable.
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.
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.
A little anecdotal, but I personally try and go outside every or every other Sunday at minimum to pickup litter around my local trails.
What I find is the only people that say thank you verbally are stereotypical Canadians, or Canadians that seem to be second generation at the least in my eyes.
Everyone else that does not fit this stereotype seems to have a weird look on their face that almost mirrors a look of disgust or hate. Its very confusing TBH. What's also quite interesting is that when people do stop and have a conversation with me the first question always is, "are you doing community service, or do you work for the city".
My answer is usually the same, "no, I am just out for a walk enjoying the trail". There seems to be a stigma that picking up garbage makes you less and not more.
To add, I'm not picking up litter for strangers, I'm picking it up for myself. I enjoy going for a walk on clean trail, and we both know if you don't do something yourself no one will do it for you.
Professional garbage collection alone isn't how we keep our neighbourhoods clean, and Montreal could use a show of civic pride this spring.
“What is up with some people’s complete disrespect for our public spaces? It doesn’t require a huge amount of effort and discipline to keep our streets, sidewalks, parks and shorelines clean. Yet some of us appear incapable.”
Not everyone has access or shares the same situation. Just because you may do one thing does not nessesary mean everyone else can do the same. There may be reasons I can't take a car. These can be personal preferences or physical barriers.
For example I could be blind, or maybe I suffer extreme hand eye coordination issues. It could be that I can't afford a car, or the financial expense associated with it. Or maybe I don't want to be apart of the environmental expenses owning a car.
And who knows maybe I cycle or take a scooter, but use transite as a connection to cut down travel time.
Open it already!! Stop with the PR videos metrolinx.
They have re-built portions of the station I live closest to 6 times. Also, why is fencing still needed on portions that seem complete were no work had happened for more the a year. Take the fencing down and give the sidewalks back to pedestrian.
Slap some darn stickers on the sliding doors saying "this station is not in operation" or something like "opening soon, 2027-2029"
Why does the TTC suck so much in customer service, and what's with the constant delays every single day.
Sometimes going into the office (when I'm stuck between station for 30 minutes in a non-moving train), I wonder how much better it was during covid with a full WFH mandated.
The TTC main complaint those last few years were no one is riding, but now they have ridership and they can't keep up with demand.
That's the one, thanks for finding a link.
Seems like it was 12-25 years of age and 150$ for a month of unlimited travel. It was a good deal but only available for 1 month, and i was already to old :'(
Would of been nice to use the pass and only sleep on the train as opposed to finding hotels.
Day pass admission is 10-11$ for adults
Yearly passes cost around 135$
If you have 7 people in a car you can use that yearly pass for your group of 7.
Kids under 18 are free by default.
The bridge had just gone through extensive renovations and updates with construction finished late summer of 2023.
https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/05/driver-lodged-truck-bridge-downtown-toronto/
John Edwards is on a mission to make signs in Shropshire sparkling clean.
A cyclist's new hobby of cleaning street signs has already taken him as far afield as Belgium.
John Edwards, from Shrewsbury, took up the hobby after spotting a video of a man improving signs during lockdown.
Since then he has posted clips of his cleaning around the county, and has even been tidying up the signs in Belgium after watching a cyclist race.
Mr Edwards said he was delighted to clean the signs and the response from the public was "gangbusters".
The largest gold heist in Canadian history was carried out with remarkable ease: A fraudulent shipping document for a load of farm-raised Scottish salmon was used to brazenly snatch $14.5 million in gold bars and nearly $2 million in bank notes.
The largest gold heist in Canadian history was carried out with remarkable ease: A fraudulent shipping document for a load of farm-raised Scottish salmon was used to brazenly snatch $14.5 million in gold bars and nearly $2 million in bank notes
Staples has offered recycling services for over 15 years, and now it is expanding the program and rewarding customers for bringing in their old tech.
Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs.
https://www.staples.com/stores/recycling#workingtowardsabrightertomorrow
More companies should start to follow staples lead and offer return points for packaging and products that reach their end of life.
Staples has offered recycling services for over 15 years, and now it is expanding the program and rewarding customers for bringing in their old tech.
Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs.
https://www.staples.com/stores/recycling#workingtowardsabrightertomorrow
More companies should start to follow staples lead and offer return points for packaging and products that reach their end of life.
Staples has offered recycling services for over 15 years, and now it is expanding the program and rewarding customers for bringing in their old tech.
Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs.
https://www.staples.com/stores/recycling#workingtowardsabrightertomorrow
More companies should start to follow staples lead and offer return points for packaging and products that reach their end of life.
Ontario is in the process of shifting the cost burden of trash away from municipalities and onto companies that make and sell products that generate waste.
With this shift — called "extended producer responsibility" — industry now bears the full costs of recycling or recovering such items as tires, batteries, light bulbs and electronics.
Under the system, companies pay fees, based on the amount of waste material they create, to businesses that manage recycling programs, known as producer responsibility organizations (PROs).
It's up to the companies to choose whether to pass those fees on to consumers or to absorb them as a cost of doing business. The theory is that the fees provide the companies with an incentive to reduce their packaging and other waste.
For material that fills up blue boxes — including beverage containers, paper, plastic, glass and metal — the transition to industry paying the full costs only began last year and is to be completed by 2026.
Right now, companies are seeing their blue box fees shoot upward exponentially.
The government is facing corporate pressure to change Ontario's plan that sees industry taking on the full cost of blue box recycling programs.
The industry is "trying to shirk its environmental responsibilities,"
"If producers are not paying for this packaging, it's going to be taxpayers, it's going to be the environment or it's going to be human health, and that would be a massive step backwards," Wallis said in an interview.
The GTA has been showing signs of the urban ills that are commonly associated with city life south the border
The GTA has been showing signs of the urban ills that are commonly associated with city life south the border.
Downtown infrastructure has been deteriorating, as have cleanliness and order, which were once the city’s strong suits.
In Ontario, growth has shifted to lower-cost places like Kitchener-Waterloo (110 kilometres from downtown Toronto), as well as Guelph (95 km), Peterborough (140 km) and London (195 km). Even long declining areas, like the Maritimes, have been gaining population in recent years.
Clearly a new approach is merited. Leaders in Toronto have to accept dispersion and find the city’s niche within a wider range of settlements. Downtowns themselves, as Calgary’s urban leadership now suggests, will have to morph from primarily business centres to places more oriented to housing, academic and cultural activities.
To be sure, swank high-rise projects may appeal to the wealthy and the childless. But the urban future lies in places that are walkable but not hyper-dense and can attract middle-income families.
Join the petition to ask the Canadian government to adopt Standard Time all year round.
"Changing clocks twice a year is hazardous to your health. There are many studies showing that changing the clock and staying on Daylight Saving Time negatively impacts our circadian rhythm, causes increases in strokes and heart attacks, impacts people with depression and seasonal affective disorder and causes more car accidents.
I ask the Canadian Government to finally stop Daylight Saving Time and enact Permanent Standard Time. Even if one person is saved from having a stroke or heart attack or is saved from a car accident, it's worth it. Support the health and safety of Canadians and set an example for the rest of the world.
Follow the scientific research. Do the right thing and not just the easy and uninformed thing. Don’t change the clocks. Leave them on Standard Time year round. Do not spring forward."
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I have been having a hard time finding sata power connectors, specifically ones that have the caps. Molex seems to have discontinued the caps for the following product number 0679260002.
Here is a link to one site with the connector, but caps are impossible to source for this.
https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/molex/0679260002/3468570
I have also been looking for Corsair style sata power connectors (type 4), but have had no luck finding if they sell these.
datahorder@lemmy.world
I just finished the process of adding 8 new Seagate Exos 20TB drives to my TrueNAS core system. This question has been asked a lot and it's known seagate drives are loader then most durring operation. Though i could not find anything related to a consistent "shudder" through all my new Exos drives. I have attached a audio clip in the link below. Have any of you come across this specific sound before.
The drives are in a Fractal Design 7 XL case with rubber bumpers in all trays. The case hold 9 WD Red's 12TB, and 8 Segate Exos 20TB. All 17 drives are connected to a SAS 9305-24i in IT mode. Running TrueNAS Core 13.0-U5.3
Audio Clip: https://whyp.it/tracks/151914/seagate-exos-20tb?token=X8hOc
We need to make our cities and towns more family friendly. This is called the "missing middle" in housing, and it's why in north america all we see are either large condo towers or single family homes, which also drives our urban sprawl problems. Which exacerbate out dependency on cars.
Almost all new large towers/buildings in north america prioritize bachelor's units 1 and 2 bedroom units. Trying to find a well priced 3 or 4 bedroom in a "lively" downtown center, close to transit and work, with plenty of schooling in the area is almost impossible. It's also a factor in why cities became so empty during the pandemic, ie. Not to many families living permanently in cities.
Here's a good article that also talks about the same issue with some different apparment layouts, and why developers don't provide adequate family units.
https://www.centerforbuilding.org/blog/we-we-cant-build-family-sized-apartments-in-north-america
This together with zoning requirements in north america is pushing most cities and developers to only cater towards large towers or single family housing.
We need to make our cities and towns more family friendly. This is called the "missing middle" in housing, and it's why in north america all we see are either large condo towers or single family homes, which also drives our urban sprawl problems.
Almost all new large towers/buildings in north america prioritize bachelor's units 1 and 2 bedroom units. Trying to find a well priced 3 or 4 bedroom in a "lively" downtown center, close to transit and work, with plenty of schooling in the area is almost impossible. It's also a factor in why cities became so empty during the pandemic, ie. Not to many families living permanently in cities.
Here's a good article that also talks about the same issue with some different apparment layouts, and why developers don't provide adequate family units.
https://www.centerforbuilding.org/blog/we-we-cant-build-family-sized-apartments-in-north-america
This together with zoning requirements in north america is pushing most cities and developers to only cater towards large towers or single family housing.