FireRetardant

How the hell are people married to people they are so afraid to share their beliefs and opinions with?

My job is all about providing and treating drinking water for people. Even though I'm underpaid, overworked, and have some issues with the boss, I really love it when I can make a customer happy. Some people have had stinky or orange water for years and when we come and fix it and they get good, clear, safe, high pressure water for the first time in their house they are ecstatic.

I can't meet my current needs without working, I can't meet my long term needs without working overtime. At least with my current job and some overtime hours I should be able to afford a small house as a solo adult. Once that is paid off I would really like to consider working less than full time hours.

The worst part is that vans are better work vehicles for 99% of applications.

Walking to the groccery store is my weekly routine that gives me peace. Even if its completely miserable weather wise i always feel better after the walk. I tend to buy less junk too as I have to carry every ounce home, which also helps ensure I don't let food go off. I have a lot more respect for my food and my effort now that I walk to get my grocceries.

In my experience, I spent nearly a year unemployed and it was the most depressed I've ever been. Part of it was I was also very poor at the time, but a significant part was having nothing meaningfull to do everyday. Now I've got the oposite problem where I work way too many hours in an average week and barely have time just for myself.

A lot of them aren't given the problem of planning a city, its more like" hey this road is busy, design a bigger road since its so busy". But then their superiors belittle and threaten to fire them if they recomend building a tram line instead of 6+ lanes of car traffic. "The tram line isn't by the book", "we aren't some experiemental urbanist city" or "the projected level of car service isn't adeqaute for our predicted car traffic using models where the only transport option is driving"

Ideally just get proportional representation with something like ranked choice voting and make it possible for 3rd party votes to count for something.

Are you claiming buildings to be permeable? Most just shed water away from them and often directly to a road or parking lot. A bulding would need a dedicated stormwater plan, such as a retention pond, to reduce its impacts with impermeable surfaces in urban environments.

Isn't Canada too big for bike lanes? I can't bike from Toronto to Halifax! And the train would take ages to go from Montreal, QC to Victoria BC. Why are you assaulting my freedom of movement by pushing these things on us!?!?!? /s

Roads and buildings are typically the main impermeable surfaces. Sidewalks can be made of more permeable materials because they don't need to handle nearly as much weight, tram lines only really need the rails, everything else can be permeable.

Buildings can be built to either collect their rainwater for later use, or funnel their rain water directly to sewers, reservoirs, or directly into the ground. Buildings also tend to be more beneficial to society per square foot of land than roads are.

Cars being the problem and urban design being the problem is practically the same thing, we've deaigned a significantl amount of our urban spaces specifically for cars.

That is 100% part of our problems with housing, road maintaince and municipal budgeting. We don't have to sprawl just because we have massive amounts of land, we can also build denser cities, transit oriented develolments, and walkable neighbourhoods.

Cities in Europe have managed to build modern neighbourhoods without sprawl, we could too. We need to stop using the excuse "my country/province is too big for transit" when the majority of people travel within their own metropolitan area on a daily basis.