Businesses do the bare minimum unless they have to do more. It's always been this way. They might make more accommodating voluntarily, but they won't and never have done that. They need to be compelled to do the right thing.
Tired8281
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Are they gonna aggressively build out a supply chain to support that aggressive build out? I mean, it'd be ducks if they did but it seems really unlikely.
This is what happens when you have a large segment of the population that is both opposed to something, and not terribly against acting in bad faith. You get poison pills in your regulations.
We need Basic Minimum Housing. Some sort of minimum level of housing that is available to anyone, so that no one ends up on the street.
I think you'd be laughed out of the room, if you tried to use disability law to force bicycle accommodations, and the people with disabilities would probably be angry with you. But there's no reason whatsoever that they can't make a new law or bylaw, mandating bicycle stuff.
Then you get voted out by car people who shriek that you hate cars and are trying to create a hostile environment for drivers by having a single bike rack somewhere out of the way.
They only have handicap parking because they were forced to by law. They only have wheelchair ramps because they were forced to by law. They only have accessibility features because they were forced to by law. See where I'm going with this?
Seems like what people really want is to take people who have already been seriously traumatized, and traumatize them some more. For their own good, of course.
RD honours takedowns, so sometimes content vanishes from them.
Everyone who is making money by not implementing these policies is peeling off some of it to keep the policies that make them the money in place.
Sales taxes are political death. GLWT!