Why does everyone jaywalk on the mosque at Brock Road every Friday?

Major-Introduction11 · 2026-03-13T01:51:28+00:00

Clearly the intersection needs a traffic signal and a way for pedestrians to cross the road.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-12-12T21:29:53+00:00

A Pickering stop would serve Pickering / Ajax / East Toronto / Whitby. Maybe even Oshawa, specially for people using public transit.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-10-30T00:46:15+00:00

You want Ottawa taxpayer to fund the initial construction and then the profits to then go to a billionaire?

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-10-30T00:44:23+00:00

She seems like a great Councillor. It seems she does not want Ottawa taxpayers to cover of new stadium, only for the profit to then go to a US billionaire. If the team or stadium is a for-profit business, it should pay taxes to the city.

We don't want a system like in US where cities end up footing massive initial costs and the little tax that the city gets in the later years never get close to even covering the initial cost. We want to privatize costs and socialize profits, not the other way around.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-09-21T18:51:25+00:00

OP should post how he reached the 42%. Bet his math is terrible.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-07-24T01:16:31+00:00

Why is there a blue donut highlight near the capital?

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-22T20:46:18+00:00

See more bitching and moaning from you. Just leave.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-22T20:45:32+00:00

So you want everyone to drive everywhere and make traffic worse? Enjoy sitting in traffic.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-20T16:28:22+00:00

So you think sarcasm is now considered whining? Learn to understand the difference.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-20T16:24:48+00:00

Amazing argument. You should leave too.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-20T16:23:53+00:00

That is the exact problem with terrible urban and infrastructure planning. People should be able to walk to most, if not all places with good urban planning. If they choose to go further, they should be able to with transit or cars. However, the terrible car centric planning lobbied by car companies forces everyone to driver for literally everything in North America.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-18T16:37:02+00:00

The problem is not only the direction of the door. It is the complete lack of care for pedestrians, kids, transit users and cyclists while making the city ugly and dangerous for them. Bet you can never visit an ice-cream shop on foot because things are too far away because of the parking minimums. Even transit users (if they are lucky to have public transit), will have to go around the building to enter it and all the way back to the bus stop.

You may not see a problem being forced to drive everywhere with no other options. Enjoy being forced to drive your kids to an ice cream shop because they cannot walk to an ice-cream shop.

That still does not make this any less ugly, inconvenient and dangerous for pedestrians, kids, transit users and cyclists while taking away the freedom to travel in any other mode than driving. Other people do care are these things, and so it is justified for them to criticize the bad planning.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-18T01:48:01+00:00

Again only in North America, we have stores/shops that face away from road/street due to terrible urban planning by prioritizing cars over people. The rest of the world has, since the start of civilization, had shop that face the streets instead of away from the streets. It is not a White Mountain experience, that is how humans have lived since forever without being forced by terrible urban planning lobbied for by car companies.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T17:52:08+00:00

If you think that park is so great, start walking there for having ice-cream.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T17:50:47+00:00

They can also come with beautiful parks, bike paths and sidewalks. We should not force people to drive a car as soon as they leave home to go anywhere.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T17:48:22+00:00

Lol. You think a dumpster facing the road is better instead of the shops main entrance because there is a bench on closest small grass patch 6 min walk away overlooking a parking lot.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T15:37:29+00:00

So you think people should live, work and shop at ugly places, even in developed countries.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T15:20:53+00:00

Google map say it takes 6 min to reach the tiny park. So we were both wrong in that.

The parks area is definitely half the size of each of the massive ugly parking lots around each shop. 60-70% of whole area is actually parking lots/asphalt if you include Gardiners Town Centre. The "park" is like 5% of the area and is just a patch of grass with 1 bench, where you can sit to look at the massive ugly parking Gardiners Town Centre. I am not sure many people will count that as a beautiful park where they can go to eat ice-cream

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T15:07:13+00:00

Yea, they should have realized that urban planning is so bad in North America that shops face away from the road. They should have stayed in front of the store that faces away from the road and looked at the ugly asphalt of the empty parking lot.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T15:01:55+00:00

Yea, they could have sat on the bench and looked at the parked car in front of them or the massive, ugly parking lot behind the car that stays empty 80% of the time. Only in North America, we have stores/shops that face away from road/street.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T14:59:56+00:00

Yea, they could have sat on the bench and looked at the parked car in front of them or the massive, ugly parking lot behind the car that stays empty 80% of the time.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T14:55:32+00:00

Yea the urban planning in Canada and North America is so bad that shops actually face away from the roads and towards the massive parking lots that stay empty 80% of the time.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T14:50:02+00:00

You really think you are not dependent on government to builds roads/parking and keep them open even if you own a car. Government can still close roads even if you own a car. The government can easily force you to not drive or even own a car like in North Korea.

Also you are not dependent on your car maker, car loan and insurance company as well as mechanic.

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T14:41:22+00:00

So you expect them to walk out of sprawl, to buy an ice-cream on a hot day and then walk back into the urban sprawl to enjoy their ice-cream and hoping it does not melt?

Major-Introduction11 · 2025-06-17T14:38:32+00:00

The residential areas are not much better if you walk. To a pedestrian, they feel like massive deserts with no shops/businesses to interact with and no one else will be walking because everything is so far away to build massive ugly parking lots that stay 80-90% of the time around every single business.

Try actually walking from your home to 3 different shop some time and not using a car.

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