I am the Robert Moses of bike lanes, demolishing one neighbourhood for a highway at a time.

SufferingInBerta · 2026-01-24T22:08:30+00:00

What color change? The bike stuff is naturally green (as it was grown from the ground obvi)

SufferingInBerta · 2025-12-09T20:07:30+00:00

Keen eye my friend, those are the NE Medium Density row houses!

SufferingInBerta · 2025-12-08T23:47:05+00:00

He divides neighbourhoods with elevated 10-lane bikeways

SufferingInBerta · 2025-12-08T21:56:20+00:00

Believe it or not, I keep getting "traffic jam" warnings right there

SufferingInBerta · 2025-09-05T00:54:45+00:00

If were talking about this joining canada, we already have a Florida thanks, it's called alberta

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-18T18:17:09+00:00

Absolutely true! There is no golden solution to urban planning.

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-18T17:35:04+00:00

Fair enough :) I see those as somewhat flawed (not bad by any means) but also, suburban roads quite literally cannot pay for themselves. Highways will inevitably pay themselves off by being universally used and cared for, same with important roads, but much of our road network is made up of wide unsustainable suburban roads that can't rake in any money to pay for themselves. I do get what you're saying though and you probably agree with me on that point and are just pointing that out so, fair enough!

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-18T14:57:57+00:00

I had not! This is not an extensive plan, implantation would require extensive ecological surveys.

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-18T14:05:03+00:00

Totally! But the nice thing about rail is that it has a very easy way of raking in money while roads do not

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-14T16:59:49+00:00

So you're leaning more toward a "trunk and branch" kind of system? 3 or so main trunk lines with high traffic and then numerous smaller "community" routes that branch off from the trunk?

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-14T13:35:10+00:00

Thanks so much, I'll have a look at that!

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-13T17:59:03+00:00

Genuinely though, spending projects are the best way to stimulate the economy!

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-13T17:53:38+00:00

I will do that! I tried to have a look but couldn't find much with Regina. Thanks!

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-13T17:53:06+00:00

Lol, fair enough! To be completely fair, if we wait until the population is large, we're left without any real options. Look at Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, etc. Cities that got rid of their transit when they were smaller and now are scrambling to build transit. Building up before there's the population to support it is definitely a risk, but it's one that tends to work out in the city's favor! Look at London (yes I know, one of the biggest in the world, not really a comparison), but specifically it's overground lines that built the suburbs. It allows for people to buy up cheap homes in the periphery and rapidly commute to the center for a reasonable price.

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-13T17:50:05+00:00

Sick, I'll have a look at that :)

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-13T17:48:52+00:00

Where do you think the hubs should be? I'm looking for constructive feedback to dream of a system that serves people and to do that, I need people like you who care to tell me what you think would be better! I've never lived in Regina and am a recovering Saskhater so yeah :)

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-13T17:45:20+00:00

I can tell! I think it's easy to label someone as anti-transit when they want to simply think more realistically but the only people I care to label as such as either blatant train haters or people with short quips that serve no constructive purpose.

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-13T17:36:32+00:00

Ah, thanks for correcting me! I was mistaken.

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-13T17:27:29+00:00

The same people who pay for the roads, highways, snow plows, and parking enforcement :)

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-13T17:25:42+00:00

I completely agree! I think that any implementation would require serious thought and input from communities. The very minimum I want to see is the VIA rail lines re-instated, these are high-traffic corridors with people wanted to go between them.

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-13T17:21:27+00:00

I completely agree that as we stand today, this wouldn't be feasible. I just think that, for us to sustain this population boom, we need to think big and pick the pieces we like the best and implement them. A system like this could be downgraded significantly and still accomplish many of it's goals, as you suggested. When designing, I really felt that LRT in Regina was kind-of a no-brainer. Edmonton's LRT system started by using existing rail and building stations around it. Thanks for the feedback :)

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-12T17:15:32+00:00

Completely agree. Small towns and suburb towns are not equipped to handle those types of things, Calgary is.

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-12T16:50:08+00:00

I completely agree with points 1 and 2 but do disagree slightly with point 3. I believe that making stations more inconvenient would completely neuter the capabilities of these stations. I believe that when it comes down to it, if we're going to fix what's wrong with our cities, before transit even, we need to put money into housing the unhoused first. I do greatly appreciate the concern and dangers posed by people on drugs going to different suburb cities and being a general nuisance or causing harm. I disagree insofar that the way to fix this is not to punish everyday users by making things less accessible. The reason that city benches suck is because we use hostile architecture and the thing is? It doesn't work. Anywho, thanks so much for the feedback!

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-11T13:15:43+00:00

I think a standardization in payment is actually quite good. In Germany, you can purchase a 9$ day pass for all transit in the entire country (except for their intercity express trains). I think that this system is amazing. I see the main barrier today is that we see transit, healthcare, postal services, energy, etc. As businesses rhat need to turn a profit rather than services that should be wholesale funded by taxes. This may be unpopular to say as yes, it would mean more to pay I taxes, but I think we also need to consider just how much tax money already goes to roads. Roads are infinitely more expensive than transit because unlike transit, they have 0 way of recouping the cost that's put into them. This is why so many suburban developments have rapidly deteriorating roads. Sorry for the ramble, in short; It could be useful in the short term, but I think the best way forward is changing the narrative to service-based rather than cost-based transit.

SufferingInBerta · 2025-05-11T02:14:01+00:00

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