01-11-2018, 08:13 AM
(01-10-2018, 11:19 PM)embe Wrote: Looking at it from a different way, there are other parts of the world where mass transit and walking, biking, etc are a lot easier. Very true.
That being said, South Western Ontario contends with snow(!) and other challenges. Using a car, shovelling sidewalks, and waiting for a train is par for the course. If it bothered me that much it would make perfect sense to move somewhere else where it wouldn't be an issue.
You didn't quite say "if you don't like the way things are, move," so thanks for that. There's no reason using a car need be par for the course here in winter. There's no reason someone should each winter have to consider whether they should buy a car, or "move somewhere else."
Nobody here is complaining about "snow." The complaints are about the fact that we are not collectively maintaining our transportation infrastructure in winter. And it's obvious that it's possible.
The reason the comparison between the way car infrastructure is maintained versus the way human infrastructure is maintained is because it's so obvious. We can plow a twenty-five-foot-wide street for cars by the morning after a snowfall, but a five-foot-wide sidewalk directly adjacent might not be entirely clear a single time in a season. It's not an immutable law that results in this; it's our priorities, and they're askew.