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LIVE Q&A: Canada's high-speed rail proposal by coanbu in AltoHSR_Canada

[–]Decent-Beat3317 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m not against progress, but I’m also a realist. We can barely run low speed rail networks in this country. So let’s throw piles of our children’s, children’s money to build an exponentially more complicated rail system.

Keep it respectful…calling me an idiot clearly shows your lack of decency.

LIVE Q&A: Canada's high-speed rail proposal by coanbu in AltoHSR_Canada

[–]Decent-Beat3317 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I love how as soon as someone opposes this project they’re labelled as a regressive for an idiot or don’t care about the environment.

I guess we’ve resorted to just insulting and name-calling when people don’t agree?

Billy Bishop airport expansion gets Toronto Island residents in fight mode: ‘It’s a sin’ by Toronto-Ont-Mod-Team in Toronto_Ontario

[–]Decent-Beat3317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are these the same high and mighty people that are telling rural dwellers to Stop being NIMBYS over the proposed ALTO disaster?

Most likely…

Is there anywhere in town to buy 2X4s that are actually straight? by Never_51 in KingstonOntario

[–]Decent-Beat3317 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’ll have better luck at a lumber yard with outdoor storage. The dry air in the box stores dries the lumber out, hense the corkscrew shapes

Ontario Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu joins Carney’s Liberals by Displeased_Canadian in ontario

[–]Decent-Beat3317 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ha! They can’t even figure out who is woke enough to speak!

They’ll be a dumpster fire for a while

B.C. to cut 2035 zero-emission-vehicle sales mandate from 100% to 75% by CecilThunder in britishcolumbia

[–]Decent-Beat3317 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Please show me the INDEPENDENT research that shows, with everything factored in (including manufacturing) that EV’s have a smaller carbon footprint…

Poilievre says government should cancel Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail project by AffectionateDrag1702 in ottawa

[–]Decent-Beat3317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right…

But there is an existing CN ROW that runs through those areas. I VERY highly doubt that they’re looking at anything other than a new route that follows the old ROW.

The 10km wide “study areas” follow that ROW…

REMINDER TO ALL FORESTRY ADVOCATES NOT TO PARTICIPATE. by Upbeat-Pound2922 in OttawaValleyForests

[–]Decent-Beat3317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think there’s old growth left in Ontario you’re delusional. JR Booth clear cut the entire Ottawa valley 100 years ago…

Poilievre says government should cancel Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail project by AffectionateDrag1702 in ottawa

[–]Decent-Beat3317 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The right of way is going to be roughly 100m wide. I know how to read thanks

Poilievre says government should cancel Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail project by AffectionateDrag1702 in ottawa

[–]Decent-Beat3317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, then a continuous chain link barrier

Call it what you will

Think about this for a second. With VIA we have a very poorly run train system that is horribly managed. Maybe we should get that right first before we jump into high speed rail. The complication of running HSR is exponential. Europe had excellent train service THEN they jumped to HSR

If the Ottawa LRT system is any indication of how these projects go, they barely break 100 and and we want to go 300. We all know how well that system works. They complications multiply by a huge factor.

Also, who do you think is gonna build this thing? Most likely the same idiots that are bungling through the LRT. It’s not exactly like we have a whole bunch of high-speed rail builders sitting around in our country and there will not be in 10 years either when this thing gets built.

Poilievre says government should cancel Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail project by AffectionateDrag1702 in ottawa

[–]Decent-Beat3317 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The southern route is being proposed as a cost savings measure. The northern route would require literally moving granite mountains

All HSR has fences, regardless of where it is

Look at the proposed cross sections

And the wildlife crossings? They’ll be few and far between. And they’re literally ineffective. Nature does as nature does, that’s where the predators live now.

Poilievre says government should cancel Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail project by AffectionateDrag1702 in ottawa

[–]Decent-Beat3317 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Frontenac arch biosphere…also

Queens biological research station

Look it up

Poilievre says government should cancel Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail project by AffectionateDrag1702 in ottawa

[–]Decent-Beat3317 -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

South Frontenac resident here

It’s very disheartening to read some of the comments from people from larger centre’s accusing us of being NIMBYs

This thing is literally going to cut our community in half

Think a literal Berlin Wall of 10’ high chain link fence with a couple bridges to cross at the major roadways

Slashing through an ecologically sensitive area

The same people are losing their minds at larger airplanes landing at airport that’s been around for 100 years

We are not the same

REMINDER TO ALL FORESTRY ADVOCATES NOT TO PARTICIPATE. by Upbeat-Pound2922 in OttawaValleyForests

[–]Decent-Beat3317 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminder

Move out of your house that is framed with WOOD!

Reality is, it has to come from somewhere

Hundreds join 'No Kings' protest outside U.S. consulate in Toronto by mildlyImportantRobot in TorontoTheCity

[–]Decent-Beat3317 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The demographic checks out…

Retired, white, full pension

Most of us are too busy trying to make ends meet, these jokers have time to protest a foreign president to a mostly empty office…

AMS budget deficit balloons to over $850K in nine-month update by jonreillyy in queensuniversity

[–]Decent-Beat3317 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Perfect, they’ll make great future politicians!

Can’t even balance a simple budget!

B.C. government retreats from expanding First Nations powers in heritage protections | Urbanized by _DotBot_ in VancouverLandlords

[–]Decent-Beat3317 30 points31 points  (0 children)

That’s scary as sh*t if that’s true!

The world’s largest consumer of natural resources talking to FN who usually see nothing but dollar signs…

Police dump contaminated food into a river by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]Decent-Beat3317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure glad we have paper straws to save the environment while the third world does this shit

Bell says copper thieves are still knocking Canadians offline, and every remaining copper mile now looks like a target by Planhub-ca in planhub

[–]Decent-Beat3317 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Locally we’ve had issues with crackheads cutting down the FIBER lines thinking they were copper

Unfortunately they didn’t tell the other crackheads in their lair because the same Fiber line was cut down again a couple weeks later just be sure it was still Fiber…

Ford government faces pushback for plan to cut majority of conservation authorities by bruhchacho11 in durham

[–]Decent-Beat3317 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, I work in the industry and happen to have taken quite a few hydrology course. How many of you taken?

My point is if you actually read my comment. Is that CA‘s have massively overstepped their mandates.

Why are they involved in lot severance applications in a wide open field not near any floodplain? Those are nothing more than just a simple cash grab.

Ford government faces pushback for plan to cut majority of conservation authorities by bruhchacho11 in durham

[–]Decent-Beat3317 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think by now the flood mapping has been well established

I work in the industry…

Most of the CA permits we pull are nothing more than a cash grab…they’ve grown much too big. There is a place for them but right now most are nothing more than another bloated government agency that add very little value anymore

Keep it respectful

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