Road design, transportation and walkability

[danbrotherston]

General relativity doesn’t make any sense to me, for tens of thousands of years the idea the earth was a sphere didn’t make sense to people.

Just because something doesn’t make sense to you doesn’t mean it isn’t true. You have hundreds of 60s and 70s planners who also didn’t believe it.  Sadly they, and you are wrong.  This is very well understood, and accepted.  It isn’t worth talking to you about it because you don’t accept basic fundamental facts of the world. And yes, you can find some libertarian think tanks and angry drivers who want to deny these basic facts but it doesn’t make you edgy or ahead of the curve to believe them, it makes you unaccepting of basic facts, and I don’t have the energy to argue with someone about whether water is wet.

As for subsidies, it costs more to deliver services to suburban areas. That too is a simple fact.  There are more roads to service, more pipes, more fire halls, more ambulance depots, more libraries, longer bus routes, etc.  This is also well understood, dense areas of a city subsidize sprawling ones.

Hahaha.......disagreeing with you on this one particular theory makes me "unaccepting of basic facts of the world" of the world? really?.  I also noticed right away you come up with "angry" drivers who want to deny these facts.  I watched a video of yours once and I must say you sure did come across as an "angry cyclist".

  You don't mention that suburban homes pay substantially higher taxes than those in the core.  Doing quick math, the 20 year old small court I live on in Kitchener collects over $130,000 annually for 24 homes.  I'm pretty sure we are paying our way.  We don't even have bus service in our subdivision so at a minimum we're subsidizing transit without even having the opportunity to use it.    

  Regardless and thankfully regional staff must also have some doubts or at least don't care about induced demand because they're clearly going ahead and widening Fisher-Hallman.

Yes, it does, because this "particular theory" is an accepted basic fact of the world. Really. This is why so many of us won't take the time, that and your dismissive disbelieving anti-science attitude.

And your response to tomh009's message is to make a half dozen replies, one in which you call me an "angry cyclist" (apparently objecting, calmly to drivers driving distracted on their fucking phones or being upset that drivers have run me off the road makes me an "angry cyclist"), then later reply to tomh009's post directly and plead innocence and claim you have "never insulted anyone personally". Right. I have absolutely nothing polite to say about that.

On taxes...I pay...EXACTLY the same tax rate as you. Your belief that I pay less taxes than you, I'm so sick of this delusion, literaly the ONLY factor in how much taxes one pays is the value of your property, and downtown properties are valued HIGHER than suburban properties, and they are far denser.  So no, this is another basic fact of the world you are in denial of.

You are right about one thing though, our regional engineering staff don't care about induced demand, they make bad, self defeating decisions about road expansion all the time. You're in good anti-science company there.