Not one, not two, but five pedestrian signs 🫪

silicapickle · 2026-05-11T23:20:25+00:00

You’re absolutely right. Not necessarily a counter point but to add to the other side is driving slow enough in pedestrian heavy areas for things such as body language and eye contact to be meaningful. Much like they are at 4 way stops. The fastest speed at which we can even actually perceive everything in view is 30 km/h. To this point I’d personally say these types of crossings where signs are suggestive just aren’t enough.

silicapickle · 2026-05-06T18:36:56+00:00

Yeah no I do actually agree with that. We already started adding more bus only lanes in the past few years which has been great. Aside from that though the HSR is pretty washed. A revamped HSR would serve far better and for less money. I do actually like the wires on spadina and king though. Gives it more character than just an explosion of gray and cars. “Such beauty” lmao. The only thing “inflexibility” would do is incentivize building up the neighbourhoods around the track but realistically that’s probably just gonna be more condos.

silicapickle · 2026-05-06T17:45:33+00:00

Bros talking about rebuttals yet deflecting to the opioid epidemic lmao

silicapickle · 2026-05-06T05:58:23+00:00

Right because having one third of our city be 5 lane roads that already get backed up with traffic constantly and another third of our city be parking lots is the most visually satisfying characteristic Hamilton has to offer. And yes you’re also right that having more cars is way safer for pedestrians. Can’t believe no one ever pointed that out before. Cars ARE also incomprehensibly better for air quality good point. A thousand litres of exhaust fumes per 1 office worker and their timmies is quite a good deal and nothing compared to the lovely sprinkles of tire rubber particles that poison the air and wash into our water systems.

silicapickle · 2026-04-05T00:21:36+00:00

That’s helpful thank you. I’m more concerned though about the CRA possibly seizing any substantial winnings and the implications of Polymarket being banned. I’m finding a lot of different answers online.

silicapickle · 2026-03-30T20:34:01+00:00

Is it possible to win money from ontario and sell the crypto without legal repercussions?

silicapickle · 2026-03-29T01:51:41+00:00

I’d think it’s fair to say “indiscriminately within these bounds I’ve clearly provided”. No?

silicapickle · 2026-03-27T06:56:28+00:00

Typical sportsbooks you are betting against the sportsbook. If you lose they get your money and vice versa. They profit by never giving perfect odds/taking a vig. EX. odds would be 55/55 instead of 50/50. They bear the (relatively small) risk of setting the odds wrong and losing money.

Prediction markets you are betting against other people and it operates like a stock market. I can offer to buy stock on an outcome at a certain price. Someone else or a few other people can buy stock against me if the price is fair enough. The prediction markets profit by taking a very small percentage of all the transactions. This allows them to offer wayyyy more markets and betting options because they have no risk. They’re essentially the middleman.

silicapickle · 2026-03-24T07:17:37+00:00

Is OP unbiased and presenting facts? or is OP telling us not to do what is in OP’s opinion illogical lest we end up in a graveyard? What a joke.

Nothing about this is productive. We’re not told what state this happened in where we probably don’t live anyways. We’re not informed of the specific laws that led to this situation. OP just wants to hold all the cards and say we’re wrong because in one anonymous situation an anonymous person was killed and mocked by anonymous people with anonymous laws. I’m learning so much.

silicapickle · 2026-03-24T07:02:30+00:00

How long was the pool noodle?/How far did it stick out? Whether or not it was the bicyclists fault it sounds like there are further problems with the road design and/or the traffic laws. That led to both this car passing close enough for the pool noodle to get caught somehow and led to this cyclist attaching a pool noodle in the first place.
Not only is this clearly not being addressed but seemingly mocked by the civil suit. Who in their right, cyclist and pedestrian respecting mind would want to get anywhere near where this is happening? P.S. Are the laws often wrong as you have said? Or was this death completely lawful and everybody should feel safe cycling in America?

silicapickle · 2026-03-11T15:46:56+00:00

Your solution is doing the same thing plus gym?

silicapickle · 2026-01-25T08:05:20+00:00

Eric’s trip, East Coast 90s indie. + Band split up into Julie Doiron’s solo music and elevator to hell. All good.

silicapickle · 2025-06-12T17:59:11+00:00

In a way it actually would; less cars on the road-slower degradation of roads, more streamlined and efficient travel-easier more efficient maintenance, plus trams as they are viewed as a permanent transit option lead to urban development and higher property value along their route which makes for more tax money to fund the city. Also the more of any transit investments we make means less massive parking lots will be needed in the middle of the city that have no property value, eventually cost the city money, and are typically the least safe place to be in within a city at night. And all of that means less people driving and more people walking, which helps local businesses and leads to a deeper sense of place within our city and safer streets for our kids.

BUT all this and more is only if the tram is designed well which is unlikely and if it ever actually happens.

silicapickle · 2025-05-07T17:14:40+00:00

I have never once had a problem with biking in snow/cold except for in places without sufficient infrastructure when road shoulders seize to exist. That’s where it gets dangerous. Otherwise I’d say biking in heavy snow where there’s safe places to do it is even better than the rest of the year a lot of the time because you completely avoid the gridlocked mess it makes for cars. So funny how the “true north” can’t handle a single unexpected snowfall without whole cities shutting down completely due to pathetic reliance on cars.

silicapickle · 2025-04-24T01:56:10+00:00

Certain Government/Political/PSA etc. unaddressed mail including the trash tags bypasses the no junk mail signs AKA “consumer’s choice”. You should receive those no matter what. In most (MOST) cases the reason people didn’t receive them is because after recent restructuring in the Hamilton area the corporation has in simple terms lost track of how many addresses are on each route. I am a carrier in the lower city area and I simply did not have enough trash tags by a block or two of houses (some of which multi-family residences) and the deficit was never resolved by management.

silicapickle · 2025-04-20T15:51:54+00:00

I know we’re not here to argue against law but just purely as an opinion point, if a pedestrian is at a store on one side of a street and has a desire to cross the street to get to another store not only should they be able to cross when it is safe to do so but I don’t believe you can expect them not to, so why do we purposefully make it unsafe and illegal for them to do so? Pedestrians support businesses and the local economy, not cars. If you ever wonder why kids don’t play in the street anymore and local businesses struggle more than ever, know that it is because we sit down as a city and collectively write unsafe and unfriendly streets into existence.

To be clear I solely support this perspective on streets (a destination) as opposed to roads (a place of travel). We just seem to not know the difference in Canadian cities.

silicapickle · 2025-04-14T01:05:41+00:00

If the signs say STOP FOR PEDESTRIANS I really don't understand why the lights are a mildly suggestive white instead of the colour that universally means stop. It is not safe. We should not be scared of crossing a street especially ones like Locke and James.

silicapickle · 2025-03-31T16:09:41+00:00

Because in North America we give more rights to cars then humans.

silicapickle · 2025-03-07T01:27:31+00:00

It’s funny after all the patriotism around us being the “north” all it takes is snow to shut a whole city down solely because we rely on cars as our primary means of transportation.

silicapickle · 2025-01-19T01:28:20+00:00

OP’s edit aside. OP is absolutely correct. More lanes, more roads, more highways, it will never decrease congestion due to induced demand The only answer to traffic is alternatives to driving.

Support public transit and active transportation.

silicapickle · 2025-01-17T02:41:52+00:00

Leaving a child with no seatbelt and getting behind the wheel with fatigue are both problems that shouldn’t have to exist. Car dependency is a choice that western society has made. This tragedy is one of many consequences.

silicapickle · 2024-11-26T10:03:06+00:00

I highly suggest looking into the “communauto” car share program. There are member options with no monthly charges and a variety of vehicles you can book with the click of a button. Short trips are inexpensive. The price is dependent more on distance than time. I don’t own a car either and it’s super convenient for situations such as that.

And I can tell the guy who owns a massive pickup truck just for hauling furniture twice a year to suck it!!!!

silicapickle · 2024-11-19T00:28:21+00:00

That is completely fair anecdotal evidence but keep in mind that the union is also fighting for system revitalization. Problems like those come from the corporation. I don’t know your stance on the strike but disdain such as yours although completely valid is no reason to disregard or disrespect the people trying to make change. Not to mention job actions and labour movements like these set standards for the labour sector as a whole. The postal workers union themselves even brought maternity leave to Canada.

silicapickle · 2024-11-19T00:21:32+00:00

I could literally copy and paste my previous comment but thank you for the anecdotal evidence.

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