The other thread got locked down because it A) Strayed from the original point and B) Became repetitive and demeaning.
Let's forget about the special, perceived needs Lycra crowd.
Circumstances had me being driven from Bloor / 427 to Carlton / Sherbourne this morning via Bloor, Dundas and College early AM and returning mid afternoon mostly via Bloor. Since I wasn't driving I had time to make observations although I didn't count vehicles.
Generally speaking ICE vehicles were a large majority and the non ICE were a mix of bicycle, e-bikes of various classes and e-Push scooters, in that order. I may have seen one Lycra rider.
My wife made an interesting observation that with most of the drive being one-lane there wasn't the lane changing stresses, cutting in etc.
I'm all for licence plates on E powered anything. HOWEVER if that became law it would probably substantially reduce the number of vehicles using the bike lanes, further putting pressure on getting them eliminated. Is that a good thing?
Some people have trouble connecting the dots and in Toronto we have been lucky so far and what does doesn't affect us doesn't matter. I wonder about how the people in the west feel about forest fires and droughts? How about the ones in the south east with floods. Those dependent on the Colorado Creek, Mead Pond? Hurricanes and tornadoes? Similarly with Europe.
In TO we don't seem to have an imminent concern about droughts or floods but we still eat. Where does our food come from and what will it cost us if the weather patterns continue as they are doing? The dots for a Torontonian are just further apart.The consumerism driven buy-to-the-max attitude is still here but my dot doesn't count.
The only solutions seem to involve an Armageddon (Nuclear, social or financial) or the second coming of Christ.
We need some outside-the-box-thinking.
Let's forget about the special, perceived needs Lycra crowd.
Circumstances had me being driven from Bloor / 427 to Carlton / Sherbourne this morning via Bloor, Dundas and College early AM and returning mid afternoon mostly via Bloor. Since I wasn't driving I had time to make observations although I didn't count vehicles.
Generally speaking ICE vehicles were a large majority and the non ICE were a mix of bicycle, e-bikes of various classes and e-Push scooters, in that order. I may have seen one Lycra rider.
My wife made an interesting observation that with most of the drive being one-lane there wasn't the lane changing stresses, cutting in etc.
I'm all for licence plates on E powered anything. HOWEVER if that became law it would probably substantially reduce the number of vehicles using the bike lanes, further putting pressure on getting them eliminated. Is that a good thing?
Some people have trouble connecting the dots and in Toronto we have been lucky so far and what does doesn't affect us doesn't matter. I wonder about how the people in the west feel about forest fires and droughts? How about the ones in the south east with floods. Those dependent on the Colorado Creek, Mead Pond? Hurricanes and tornadoes? Similarly with Europe.
In TO we don't seem to have an imminent concern about droughts or floods but we still eat. Where does our food come from and what will it cost us if the weather patterns continue as they are doing? The dots for a Torontonian are just further apart.The consumerism driven buy-to-the-max attitude is still here but my dot doesn't count.
The only solutions seem to involve an Armageddon (Nuclear, social or financial) or the second coming of Christ.
We need some outside-the-box-thinking.
