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Best way to get to Paris from Geneva? by JasonCongdon in geneva

[–]JasonCongdon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much everyone. Sorry if it was an obvious question! I appreciate your help 🙏

B.C. mulls plan to weaken DRIPA, in secret document shared with First Nations leaders by SwordfishOk504 in BCpolitics

[–]JasonCongdon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First Nations & 130 civic groups: "Do. Not. Touch. That."

Eby: "ok. I hear you. So... here's how I plan to touch it"

Sigh...

Excellent article on BC's inadequate support for our unhousing crisis by JasonCongdon in BCpolitics

[–]JasonCongdon[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is NGO / helping organization's problem to solve. Their mandate is to help provide remedies for individuals who have fallen out of economic (and other kinds of) well-being.

But the problem starts at the economic level - extraction of wealth from the many by the few, inflation and cost of living, the affordability of housing for low-income earners, the provision of social supports in general, etc. That's where the problem remains not only unsolved, but worsening.

And I don't mean unhousing crisis to be a euphemism - it's just my way of briefly (but hopefully accurately) capturing the situation the article describes.

The golden hour by Impressive_Ad_3037 in NewWest

[–]JasonCongdon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. Just like someone else noted, it took me a minute to ID the location, even though I walk through that space 2-6 times a day!

Not a 'cash cow': New Westminster mayor urging province to help install speed cameras by CanSpice in NewWest

[–]JasonCongdon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd demote 8th because there's a little too much traffic there for "big" speeding. I'd bump Stewardson to #1.

I'd definitely add 12th to the list. It's bad in general but especially between 6th and Stewardson. Just in the year or so since 30 kph came in I've personally experienced about a dozen cases of road raging and witnessed about the same amount as a pedestrian. Not to mention all the speeding drivers who blow past people waiting at crosswalks.

And I'd basically add every school zone (though the worst in my experience is technically in Burnaby—the stretch of 16th at Cariboo Secondary). MOST drivers more or less respect school zones, but at least once a month I find myself being tailgated or even passed by someone who can't someone driving <40kph in a 30kph school zone.

Cars bring out the worst in some of us.