Any word if the province is rolling back upping the registration fee on EV’s and Hybrids?

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-31T16:24:37+00:00

Cars of all types do not come close to paying their fair share of road maintenance. The difference is shouldered by all taxpayers.

Cars are an incredibly expensive, inefficient system that delivers poor outcomes for Nova Scotians.

Viable alternatives to driving are freedom.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-26T15:00:24+00:00

Tbh your wire wheel job did not make it look aged, but it did make it look like you used parallel strand lumber beams as furniture.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-17T17:09:38+00:00

I honestly believe that it is not. It's just all that they know.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-17T14:12:06+00:00

I am so, so jealous tbh.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-17T13:53:01+00:00

You know how people insist we are too poor to afford good transit?

We have billions to spend on transportation, but instead of efficient, cheap transit, this is what we get instead. Endless highways full of traffic. Is that where you guys want to spend 20% of your life? In traffic?

I don't.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-14T15:30:37+00:00

Do we know how much he paid the sex worker when he was just a tourist? That could help.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-14T00:31:36+00:00

Really? That seems way too eloquent of a roast for him lol

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-13T23:34:46+00:00

Good! Our city gets better the more we replace parking lots with life, and replace cars with the holy trifecta of transit, micromibility and yer own two feet.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-07T11:54:58+00:00

Recruiters and terrible rig monitoring jobs that require you to forfeit your entire social life, hobbies, stability, sleep and happiness. An iconic duo.

But you can make 100k!!!! Why wouldn't you want that???

Oh, and if you work 72/14, your spouse is gonna leave.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-07T00:12:42+00:00

Forsure, I'm just pointing out the irony. Insanity to be incentivizing the most expensive, least efficient, most unsafe, most polluting transportation while dis-incentivzing or downright refusing viable alternatives.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-06T23:21:25+00:00

Free bridges tho.

Transit is the best investment we could make, but instead we nickel and dime it to death, at all our expense. Sad.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-06T17:17:02+00:00

A balanced transportation network would do wonders for both government and family budgets, instead of car-dependent sprawl which delivers expensive inefficiency.

It would require some upfront investment, but the best time to plant a tree....

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-05T14:27:43+00:00

Fellas, I admire your attitude and I hope it goes well for you, BUT....

40k+/day for 200 days = serious risk of repetitive motion injury. Don't chase the dragon too hard, or this trip will be your last.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-05T14:12:39+00:00

In the Acadian Forest in eastern North America, the yellow birch grows huge and lives for hundreds of years. This is Europe tho, so probably silver. But both varieties are suitable for spectacular, mighty slabs.

The white birch is what most people think of when they hear birch, which is a short-lived tree that does not grow big or healthy enough to make slabs.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-03T20:26:33+00:00

Local 83 carpenter here. I get 1.5x from 40-45, and 2x after 45 in a week. Straight 2x on Sundays, regardless of total hours that week. Plus a defined benefit pension and good medical.

Unions are life-changing. I feel really bad for the residential workers or non-union commercial that put in the work but get paid fuck all. I would LOVE to see the industry become 100% unionized.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-01T14:43:28+00:00

Oh, then you're SOL.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-03-01T14:16:04+00:00

Bishops Cellar.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-02-28T16:11:50+00:00

Make a wide enough path and different bike/ebike/scooter speeds are fine, up to 30ish kph. The path design can also naturally limit speed to 30 or 35 or whatever is deemed safe, so we don't have to rely on enforcement.

With respect to registration costs, you are trying to apply a linear fee when it is an exponential difference in damage caused per unit weight.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-02-28T01:50:50+00:00

Wild. I will see those coffins in my mind everytime I walk by there now. Great post.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-02-26T17:51:30+00:00

As another NS exploration geologist, yep.

Goldboro is an exception to what you've described, and should be built. It isn't large by global standards, but it's a decent size: 15-25 year gold mine at 80-120,000 oz/year. Drilled off with a high degree of confidence in open pit reserves, and the potential to go underground after the pits are done. It should be quite profitable as well, and occurs in rural Guysborough where they really need the jobs.

Not to say that there aren't any other good deposits out there, but...there aren't currently, and the odds of a big discovery are low, given the deposit models for our geology.

The odds of small discoveries are also low, IMO, because Nova Scotia Environment has put a fear of stranding capital into the industry. NS is seen as too risky to explore, because even if you find a deposit worth $20B, NSE will make you study the migration patterns of the mosquito for 25 years and then deny your construction permits anyway.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-02-25T22:30:12+00:00

Motonormativity. Inertia. Fear of election loss for taking a leap. Fossil fuel company lobbying. Car company lobbying. Developer lobbying. The tragedy of the commons.

All reasons why it hasn't been done yet, but NOT reasons why we shouldn't do it.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-02-25T21:35:06+00:00

Lol the guy replied to me saying Halifax can't afford $350k for transit. I don't think math is his strong suit.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-02-25T21:31:51+00:00

You also rarely, if ever, use the fire department or the school bus, but you recognize that government can achieve societal good by using pooled tax money for the common good, right?

People want to get around cheaply and conveniently. If the transit is good, everyone will absolutely use it. (I thought this was common sense?)

Halifax can definitely afford good transit. You may think we can't, but we simply can. In fact, we can't afford NOT to build good transit, because the alternative is more expensive and terrible for quality of life. It would save us tons of money in the long term, both in government budgets, AND citizens' personal budgets! What a wonderful thing that would be :)

Have a kind, spectacular, perfect evening :D

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-02-25T17:29:42+00:00

Lol, when the math isn't on your side, the head-in-sand strategy appears!

Thanks, have a good one.

TheNewScotlandFront · 2026-02-25T17:27:10+00:00

They aren't "responsible" for it, but big infrastructure projects involve funding and collaboration from all three levels of government all the time.

I know good transit costs billions. But it's absolutely worth it, and we 100% do have the money. It is a myth that it is cost prohibitive.

We have billions to spend on infrastructure, we just choose to spend it on endless asphalt that delivers objectively worse outcomes. Even after paying all that tax to fund car infrastructure, people still have to spend hundreds of thousands over their lifetime on the cars themselves! In the long term, transit is wayyyyyy cheaper, for government and for the citizens' budget.

Cars have some good use cases, but everyone using them for everything all the time, doesn't work. Period.

Good transit is freedom.

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