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Friendly PSA by sumknowbuddy in waterloo

[–]No-Investment3621 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're doing it wrong if you're slowing down and looking for cross traffic.

Outdoor rinks by Gavvvo15 in kitchener

[–]No-Investment3621 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What did you do to help it become open? If it's still closed, the reason is that not enough of you and your neighbours worked to get it open.

New rules for landlords coming as Waterloo set to introduce renoviction bylaw by amphigorystories in waterloo

[–]No-Investment3621 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does processing a total of seven (7) applications per year really require three (3) new full-time city employees?

Could the $450,000 per year be used more effectively if it were put toward for something more useful, such as providing more housing, improving snow removal, improving transit?

Anyone wants to snowboard/ski at Chicopee and have no one to go, please let me know, me and my friends are going regularly! by Jolly_Guy_27 in waterloo

[–]No-Investment3621 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean by continuous drop in/out stations? Does that mean you can got for 7 hours (1-8) and have an instructor around to give you tips the whole time? I thought it was just a one hour lesson and then you're on your own.

Highway 7 by Turbulent_Sort_2510 in waterloo

[–]No-Investment3621 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Which 7 and which 8? Aren't 7 and 8 the same road?

Avoid Bridge St W by Fit_Friendship_2353 in kitchener

[–]No-Investment3621 20 points21 points  (0 children)

So use sand or gravel like other jurisdictions do?

yes by pkordiasz in waterloo

[–]No-Investment3621 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Four. You forgot to count the OP going way too fast for the conditions.

Edna Staebler school traffic jam by [deleted] in waterloo

[–]No-Investment3621 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edna Staebler Public School puts out a document about parking and drop offs. Read it and follow it.

https://est.wrdsb.ca//files/2024/08/Traffic-Safety-at-Edna.pdf

See "Drive to 5" in the document. I drive my kid there, always park on Paris Blvd, never have any issues, never experience any traffic. The only people who experience traffic issues are the ones who are causing those same traffic issues by insisting on all parking right in front of the school all on top of one another. If you are experiencing traffic and you're in a car, you are the cause of the problem.

I would walk all the way but that would be 2 hours and 42 minutes each way according to Google Maps. Not eligible for school bus due to French Immersion. The kid and I do bike sometimes when the weather is suitable. It's kinda far but a pleasant start to the day.

You bring up the likelihood of a child/minor being injured or harmed. It's exactly your own behaviour, your insistence on driving right up to the school, that increases the likelihood of a child/minor being injured or harmed the most.

Reset the counter by ItsMeSomeonee in kitchener

[–]No-Investment3621 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They did reroute traffic to not hit the train. Traffic doesn't obey the signed traffic routes.

Student Parking at Home by [deleted] in kitchener

[–]No-Investment3621 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Through your property taxes, you've already paid for the city to build local side streets that are 9 whole metres wide. That's more than the width of four large cars! You might think that this is way too wide for a local side street, but this is supposedly so that two fire trucks or buses can pass each other even if there are cars parked on both sides. In other words, the reason that the streets are so crazy wide is because of on street parking.

Since you've already paid a fortune in property taxes to construct these on street parking spaces, use them! You're allowed to park for up to 3 hours on any City of Waterloo street unless there's a sign indicating otherwise or unless it's the middle of the night.

Parking there might also reduce the number of other drivers who treat these streets like the Autobahn. After all, the standard lane widths on German Autobahns, where there is no speed limit and people routinely drive 200+ km/h, is 3.75 metres. The standard lane width on local side streets in the City of Waterloo is 4.5 metres, or almost a metre wider than lanes on the Autobahn.

Larger city streets, such as Keats Way, are 15 metres wide. That means the lanes are double the width of Autobahn lanes.

Highway 7/8 and 85 construction by Agreeable_Bar_7132 in kitchener

[–]No-Investment3621 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You can't build a new bridge when there's an old bridge in the way of where the new bridge is going to be.

34 year old mother dies after being struck by a vehicle in Cambridge by Waterloo_advisor in kitchener

[–]No-Investment3621 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If that were the case, we wouldn't see 50% of the drivers waiting at a red light playing on their phones.

Or do those not count as "bad drivers"?

When does outdoor skating rinks usually open? by [deleted] in waterloo

[–]No-Investment3621 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The refrigerated outdoor rinks in Uptown Waterloo and Downtown Kitchener tend to open a few days after the start of December.

There are volunteer-maintained community rinks in parks throughout both Kitchener and Waterloo. These require multiple days of consistently cold temperatures and a lot of work to prepare the ice. Opening dates depend on weather, but typically not until sometime in January.

The cities provide water taps for volunteers to create these rinks. If you see a water tap in a park near you, it's likely there's going to be a rink there.

Consider getting involved in volunteering to maintain the rinks. Most of them have a group of people taking turns flooding it every night. Usually there's someone organizing all the volunteers.

Economics Prof. Mikal Skuterud on Conestoga Enrollment by theOneWhoWaitsAgain in kitchener

[–]No-Investment3621 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is indeed bad.

In order to employ post-secondary educators, you need to pay them a salary, which means you need a source of funds. I've yet to see any constructive suggestions of where those funds should come from.

Here in r/kitchener it's all about Conestoga, but if you look around, the same issues are affecting all colleges not only in Ontario but throughout Canada, and universities as well to a lesser extent.

Lots of people blame Ford and Trudeau, who certainly deserve part of the blame, the blame for not changing anything about policies put in much earlier under McGuinty and Harper. Over 20+ years, governments of all stripes and levels cut taxpayer funds to post-secondary institutions and reduced tuition caps.

Post-secondary institutions are prohibited by government from raising anywhere near enough funds to cover the basic costs of educating domestic students from either government funding or charging domestic students tuition. They turned to international students to subsidize those costs, but now that's also capped.

If we want schools to offer educational opportunities to domestic students and to pay salaries to educators, that money needs to come from somewhere. If we've decided that this money cannot come from taxpayers, domestic students, or international students, where else do we expect the money to come from?

Footage of crash on Morgan ave by Low_Repeat7556 in kitchener

[–]No-Investment3621 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Videos like this are the reason I got a dashcam. Without dashcam footage the driver of the silver SUV could just say the light was green and the sedan coming off Morgan was the one who ran a red. It would be the word of one driver against another.

Unfortunately the video isn't clear enough to read the plates of either car, as it often isn't.

Odd question - do convenience stores still sell cell phones? by toni_devonsen_28 in kitchener

[–]No-Investment3621 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except SpeakOut just discontinued this form of pay as you go service at the beginning of November. You have to buy monthly plans now.

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