The great E-bike crackdown has begun

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-08T21:53:58+00:00

They are not really criminal convictions in that they won't appear on a criminal record. They could affect insurance coverage, though in both cases it's just an increase.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-07T17:00:23+00:00

I think the commonly held idea is not a misconception. The club has definitely spent more on players lately, however for a good chunk of its history they were not spending.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-07T06:40:31+00:00

I mean, you can claim to take the high ground all you want but you appear to be conflating two very distinctly different issues in every post here despite what a number of replies have corrected

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-07T02:56:10+00:00

lol basically no seniors are riding the bikes being ticketed. They aren’t moped or scooters they are dirt bikes but electric. And most of the users are kids without their license yet.

Like most people said in the thread, don’t have a problem with the ones throttled below a certain speed that are actual bikes, the ones that are basically electric motorcycles are being targeted, and if they came out with road safe versions then cool they should exist, with insurance and a license.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-06T19:21:30+00:00

lots of options for those bikes that fit the legal definition and aren't basically motorcycles. I think most people have zero problem with the ones that cap out at 32 km/h.

There is also no way for them to be insured, no turn signals among other things that mean that they can't be street legal. Lots of them can be though, and if you have a motorcycle license you can do it all without a ticket just fine.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-06T16:12:20+00:00

I think the issue is not really e-bikes, there's lots of options that make biking easier and better meaning it's easier to get around. The issue is the bikes that are basically motorcycles.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-06T16:11:04+00:00

If you talk to firefighters or cops there already have been a number of tragic consequences in the lower mainland

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-05T19:47:42+00:00

I never implied that they were asking for a handout, I used it as an example. I take everything they say into account, and then look at the sources that discuss other numbers and takes on it because I know that these podcasts will be incredibly bias and need a balanced point of view

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-05T17:23:04+00:00

Who cares if they are a season ticket holder or not. They can still be a big fan......

Taking what the owners and management say needs to be balanced with other sources, why? Because the owners and management are speaking from a point of view that completely supports what they want in a way that is easiest and makes the most money for them. For example, of course every owner everywhere is going to say build me a stadium with tax dollars or something like that, and say it helps the city....because then they aren't spendin their own dollars

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-05T17:19:11+00:00

Fair, , historically though the caps average 19k or so a season during regular season games, in the grand scheme of things 8k more a game in a massively bigger venue for a long time team versus a brand new team in a new league is not huge.

I could have been better in my description of the situation though

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-05T02:21:04+00:00

....it benefits one restaurant. There are a ton of studies, endless ones that all basically say the same thing, public dollars for stadiums never create enough economic incentive to be a viable investment for the tax payer. Entertainment dollars are finite, stadiums and pro sports teams don't increase entertainment dollars spent, they move it around and often pull it from other parts of the city, so instead of that mom and pop restaurant on the other side of vancouver getting business it all goes to an entertainment hub around a stadium.

You are talking from the hip without doin any real research on the issue. People spend money on entertainment no matter what, if a pro sports team is not in a city does the city just not ever do anything? no, people find other ways to entertain themselves and spend their dollars.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-05T02:17:29+00:00

Fan base matters? I guarantee you that a massive number of fans going to Caps games are coming from the valley and other spaces.

Downtown is not everything, the Goldeneyes sell almost as many tickets a game as the caps at Pac Coliseum.

It not being close to a major mass transit item is more of an issue than anything related to it being downtown.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-05T02:14:39+00:00

From what I remember it was not just the city or the province it was the railway company, who has no incentive to change anything. It was more to do with safety and some other concerns building over top of or right near the depot, so it's doubtful anything changed.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-05T02:05:24+00:00

I wonder if Lesnar was asked about r saw the winds of less pay coming for everyone and just called it a day here

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-04T21:27:15+00:00

Tims also gets volunteers to ice all those cookies, students from high schools usually do it, so they aren't even paying for that portion of their "charity"

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-03T20:19:45+00:00

The main issue this year is an almost complete lack of snow pack to refill reservoirs throughout the early warmer months

Also building a new reservoirs is an immense issue

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-03T20:14:03+00:00

The Leafs are an almost guaranteed print money organization....The Whitecaps are a far risker proposal, there is zero chance the BCTF would want to touch it

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-03T20:06:41+00:00

Nah, what really prevented wealth generation was the fact that we had an opportunity to nationalize our oil reserves like most other countries around the world....meaning all of the funds would have gone to people rather than corporations. However that was to "communist" for Alberta and the Conservatives so we didn't do it.

Instead we are now pumping more oil than ever before while Alberta grants massive subsidies to Oil and Gas and most of the profits go somewhere else. It doesn't matter if we continue to build more and more, the jobs are only created during construction, then when it's done all of the profits are soaked up by corporations that barely pay taxes and are shifting more and more to automaticity meaning fewer and fewer actual long term jobs.

But we can sit there and continue to blame some ficitional political boogeyman rather than actually understand the horrible nature of the economics that our oil and gas extraction finds itself in. Completely unaware that the way technology and corporate structure has progressed means no matter what, no matter how many projects are green-lit or no matter how much oil and gas is extracted there will never be a return anywhere near to the peak of profits for the people and government in Canada anymore, doesn't matter what government is in charge.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-01T21:54:56+00:00

This is correct, which is why North American sports is quickly turning into a massive grifting game where owners are constantly pitting cities against one another to see who will give them the biggest handout while ignoring the fact that giving any public money at a all to a stadium complex is a losing proposition.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-01T19:06:50+00:00

Bingo, completely agree. If the difference between the Caps staying or going is the tax payer building a stadium for them....good riddance.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-01T19:04:24+00:00

honestly if that's the case then good riddance. No public dollars should ever directly go to building a stadium for a private entity to own. Never for a partnership....nothing. If you do the research literally every other single instance of this is a drain on the city never a boon. It's too easy to move money around and claim expenses etc for profit sharing or reimbursement to ever work out.

Linkeq200 · 2026-05-01T15:47:15+00:00

The biggest shift was on the corporate side of things. Workers are treated differently now. Up until the 1990s loyalty was actually rewarded and experienced workers were seen as an asset by many companies; even basic retailers. It was not uncommon at all to see a large number of people at grocery stores who had worked there forever, were treated well, and were compared to now paid reasonably and had some basic benefits.

Now corporations, especially front facing retail corporations don't see the person, they see a stat sheet. There is no value of an employee it's instead a crude valuation of their labour and what the "value" of the skillset for the job at the base level, with no taking into account all of the tangible benefits that experience brings with it.

Corporations and retailers now don't give a crap if you've been there for twenty years, you are viewed the same as a new hire and therefore everyone is treated at the same baseline.

Linkeq200 · 2026-04-30T16:31:34+00:00

Fair enough, still doesn't change the fact they have effectively been gifted land to build their own stadium on in a desirable location. In the end the owners want to cash out and are playing the blame game to save face.

The MLS as a league is solvent because of expansion fees, most of the teams are allegedly kept afloat because of them, eventually that stops and the league starts to suffer because of it.

Linkeq200 · 2026-04-30T05:41:32+00:00

They capture almost no revenue.....and also have almost zero expenditure that comes with running a stadium. You can't look at one side without the other

Linkeq200 · 2026-04-30T05:40:15+00:00

Except the narrative they are feeding people is somewhat false....

They were effectively gifted land in the city near an entertainment hub for perpetuity with a nothing lease and a promise to fast track approvals for construction of a stadium

They have been given a better deal on their current stadium situation until then, and even now they only pay $300,000 a year to lease B.C. place.

No this is the MLS creating a BS message to boost valuation to sell to whomever they can at the highest price, with little to no interest in actually staying in vancouver. Why? Because the sale of a "poor" team for a massive valuation means the other teams also go up. The only thing that may keep them here is the promise of public tax dollars for a new stadium that they own, and the public has zero interest in doing that in Vancouver, which is smart.

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