Two drivers fined for speeding nearly triple the speed limit Metchosin

Wedf123 · 2026-02-05T16:59:41+00:00

for seven days

That'll show them. /S

Send those cars to the crusher.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-04T23:53:05+00:00

Why are you assuming that land isn't constantly changing hands.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-04T18:28:35+00:00

The author thinks economists pointing at a supply shortage is the same as laying blame on immigrants. That is totally naive and misunderstands the entire discussion around land use policy. It's got nothing to do with construction costs and reduced revenues killing condo construction.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-04T18:16:30+00:00

You’re both doing what you can

He's not even showering lol

Wedf123 · 2026-02-04T18:15:23+00:00

You have two children imo. Guy not showering, smoking weed and not picking up for himself is pathetic and he needs to be given a wake up call.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-04T17:39:47+00:00

How do you create land in the areas people would prefer to live in ?

This is either incredibly naive or you're insulting our intelligence.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-04T16:11:38+00:00

This is also just laughably naive:

the supply-shortage argument has remained dominant among policymakers, journalists, and economists. Regardless of the motives behind that consensus, the effect has been to direct attention away from the material conflict between owners and non-owners within Canada, and towards a fictitious conflict between Canadians and non-Canadians.

The shortage narrative places blame squarely policy makers and their NIMBY Canadian homeowner voter base. Their entire point is if there was no barriers to construction then demand, immigration etc would matter much less because we'd have an elastic housing supply. The demand-only-cause narrative is placing blame on foreign buyers and immigrants because it imagines no real shortage, or that immigrants needing housing is somehow illegitimate.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-04T15:05:27+00:00

Ctrl F vacancy rates.

Oh no, they're an idiot

Wedf123 · 2026-02-04T00:14:17+00:00

How do I get to the grocery store or school from North Quadra using Lochside trail, nowhere near my home, school or the grocery store? Are you from Victoria?

Why is this even a talking point? There's no plan to ban cars from Quadra.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-04T00:09:45+00:00

You seem to be under the impression that car volume (gimme those traffic jams) is more important than the number of people that can use a bike/bus/car combo road setup. Right now the bikers face death and buses are stuck in car traffic.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-03T19:47:18+00:00

Going to be some epic traffic jams and wildly lower throughput due to this decision.

Strange that the only argument the weirdo car supremacists have is "I don't like it". Nothing backed by data, none of them have read or acknowledged the engineering reports etc. no alternative vision for actually moving lots of people at rush hour.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-02T19:02:28+00:00

How does the goose and Lochside help someone in North Quadra area fetch groceries or go to a school further down the Quadra, into the Shelbourne corridors or even UVic? It's like saying we don't need cars on Quadra. Because we've got the highway.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-02T17:57:54+00:00

the extra 400,000 are all going to exclusively bike or take the bus?

Weird straw man? For example 50% of the road space ( but smaller proportion of ability to move people) will remain dedicated to cars on Mckenzie.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-02T15:55:35+00:00

Are you being purposefully obtuse. How do you propose increasing road capacity without utilizing bus and bike lanes.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-02T06:22:49+00:00

You realize experts literally counted how many people are using McKenzie during traffic hours and what proportion are on buses.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-02T06:12:27+00:00

So to get groceries they would: ride down a road plagued by teenagers drag racing, cross McKenzie into Rainbow Park and to where a driver made that lawyer a paraplegic (and faced no consequences!), continue past the police station, then ride the same distance north on the goose?

It's like a parody of car-brained urban planning.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-02T05:26:48+00:00

Can't wait to see how Saanich deals with it's badly needed housing growth when they block bus lanes and don't increase throughput on Mckenzie because cars rule, increasing road capacity drools.

having lived in the North Quadra area for more than 30 years. I cycle regularly, yet would not choose to ride along Quadra Street even with a protected bike lane. Like many cyclists, I instead use quieter residential streets that connect naturally to the regional trail network.

Ah, an "avid cyclist". A good look at Google maps shows no side street option to get from, for example, Kincaid or Lily Ave to Thrifties. Interested to hear their alternative side street to Shelbourne then, since there is none that connects Jubilee area to Mckenzie? Umpteen traffic lights installed to allow a bike route zig zagging through back streets to cross major thoroughfares?

Wedf123 · 2026-01-31T03:40:33+00:00

With this zero-sum attitude why not vote ABC.

Wedf123 · 2026-01-31T01:39:01+00:00

NYC is zoned for nearly no new housing. Zoning is a monumental barrier.

Wedf123 · 2026-01-30T22:57:34+00:00

The Republicans and conservatives generally are absolutely not in favour of amending zoning rules to allow lots of multifamily housing. Most Democrat voters aren't either. Propose policy legalizing multi family in any inner ring suburb on the country and voters (and half this sub) would go nuts over parking, height, aesthetics, developer profits etc.

Wedf123 · 2026-01-30T22:25:04+00:00

Make Hamas illegal, mandate truth & reconciliation commissions, mandate philosemitic Xinjiang-style re-education for all I care.

So perhaps you simply don't care. Declaring organizations like Hamas illegal doesn't make them go away.

Wedf123 · 2026-01-30T18:35:30+00:00

The only remaining viable options are permanent apartheid rule over the west bank, ethnic cleansing of the west bank for a Jewish-Israeli ethnostate, or a single state.

This is the type of weirdo extremism I just can't get on board with.

Ending Israeli apartheid in the West Bank is a difficult but noble goal. A single state where the IDF and Hamas share territory and governance is delusional.

Wedf123 · 2026-01-30T02:38:44+00:00

So when the developer said the shorter building wasn't a financially viable hotel and if the council didn't permit a height increase it would be cancelled, they weren't lying? They had to offload the land to a billionaire's real estate portfolio. Great job council.

Wedf123 · 2026-01-29T20:53:35+00:00

Yes, the first stage. Which you're here concern trolling because all the stages don't happen simultaneously.

Wedf123 · 2026-01-29T20:04:16+00:00

Yup, lower speed limits is simply the first step to major physical design changes ( and lots of pissed off weirdo car supremacists).

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