If Canadians ever thought we might get a four lane highway coast to coast, they can forget about that while these clowns are in power.
“Our government has made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure. Of course we will continue to be there for cities, provinces and territories to maintain the existing network, but there will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge the road network. The analysis we have done is that the network is perfectly adequate to respond to the needs we have.
Sometimes a better built road with no traffic lights equals less stopngo, less time vehicle running and, funny this part, a more efficient way of life and overall population productivity…….
But nah….. We don’t work for you. Or want that. Or care. Carbon!!! Environment!!…Whatever that means.
It means you will eat your bugs and ride the bus and be happy.
“While his government supports electrification of vehicles, it has also been investing heavily in other programs and plans to move Canadians out of private cars and onto public transit or active forms of transportation.”
Buses pollute, the ultimate end game is 15 minute cities where you walk or use snowshoes.
Active forms of transportation LOL .
Yabba dabba do !
What a fking Commie.
And this gem –
“However, about 60 per cent of the small particulate pollution coming from gas-powered vehicles doesn’t actually come from their tailpipes, but rather from brake friction, tire friction, and road surface dust being churned up as the vehicles travel. And that source of emissions will be even worse with electric vehicles, she notes, because their batteries make them heavier than gas-powered vehicles.”
They will never stop.
You are correct. There is no Utopia on earth, ergo, there can never be an end to the drive for perfection and no detail is too small or irrelevant if it can be used to browbeat the proletariat into submission for their sins. The goal is death or enslavement.
They won’t stop until we all get booted out of our cars… ICE or EV… It doesn’t matter. Private car ownership will end, and if you’ve been a bad little boy, or girl (or whatever), you will not get the privilege of even riding on public transport, let alone “rent” a vehicle for a camping trip. (Camping will also be restricted, according to agenda 2030).
If people don’t wake up soon…
The answer is obvious, then: Ban brakes.
AND, more people will die; we quite like that.
No right turn at red light, no roundabouts.
Quebec big city traffic suks.
The countryside is beautiful.
SOME big cities, like Montreal, do not allow right turns on red lights, and if you’ve driven along other Quebec drivers in Montreal, you begin to see why.
However other cities do allow for red-light right turns, like Gatineau, across the river from Ottawa, or Laval, the island neighboring Montreal island to the north. I’m not sure about the south shore, but I would imagine some of those jurisdictions would allow right turns as well.
In fact, prohibiting right turns on red lights is really the exception, not the rule.
Yep. The mask finally drops. It’s all about eliminating private transportation and forcing everyone except the elites into public transportation.
The end goal is roads like in North Korea. Empty except for the nomenklatura.
Exactly, plebs don’t need roads to live in one place and eat bugs.
This, totally this.
Back during the scamdemic lockdowns, the elites were marvelling at how awesome the empty roads and airports were. The truly important folk could zoom around without delays! Recreating that permanently has been a priority ever since.
I live in Ottawa for 4 years and commuted like a good little lemming because I worked downtown. There are a couple of roadways that are reserved for busses. And limos carrying our overlords, who can’t be stuck in traffic like the rest of the unwashed.
Let’s import a couple of million more people and not enlarge the infrastructure.
As a former resident of Ottawa for the past 28 years, I sympathize, and wish you all the best.
If we don’t want that we have the option of voting for someone else.
Or the equally effective option of wishing on a star.
Get rid of parking and vehicle access on parliament hill. And get rid of the parliamentary bus service as well. Then we can talk.
Good idea
All roads lead to roam.
It wasn’t the Fall of The Roamin Empire so much as they all just wandered off.
Plenty of government envelopes for every Tom, Dick and Turban, however..
Are road conditions tied to socio economic factors? Edmonton roads are terrible, people complain about the roads in Saskatchewan, but they have a smaller tax base..
Absolute worst roads i’ve ever encountered were in Quebec, Montreal, specifically. Huge potholes, rusty bridges with crumbling concrete above, terrible traffic, etc. ‘Best bike lanes in the world’, with their own signals, markings and infrastructure, though!
I used to have an engineering teacher who taught structures. His worse example of a load on a bridge was a train full of tanks. One day in Montreal, 40 years ago, looking at the decrepit reinforced concrete on my motorcycle, I saw it: A train carrying a load of Leopard tanks. And I watched it expecting the whole shebang to come tumbling down. It probably hasn’t improved.
Wait until we get more bloated EV’s on the highways…road and bridge disintegration is going to accelerate dramatically and parking structures are going to collapse.
Burn it all down, Man
Yes, I don’t particularly enjoy the gravel roads here in the boonies of SK, especially in the spring time when the snow melts, and the roads turn to mud, but you are correct about the lousy roads in Quebec, especially in the big cities.
We all know the freedom to take a drive for an hour or a week is something special.
Driving and sometimes making a turn just to see where it goes and then finding some sweet little surprise.
But especially on a nice, smooth road.
That’s what they hate: Your freedom and enjoyment of life.
We can’t get rid of theses bastards soon enough .
Breaking news.
Gruber admits that his false utopia will let us down over the long term.
Ergo, get these sick puppies out of power in the short term.
Then let’s get back to what used to be, powered by the people, right on.
PS…Steve Gruber needs to climb, then plunge, from the tower this time.
ENOUGH LIBERAL SHITE> DEI!
CANADUH
They won’t do it because it’s too John A MacDonald.
You remember. The one they tore off the $10 bill, and replaced with some woman no one ever heard of?
The funny thing about that woman on the 10 dollar bill (Viola Desmond): she’s there because she would not sit in the black section of a cinema in 1946. She was nearsighted and didn’t pay the extra penny for the white section.
She was arrested and fined. That’s it. This is the incredible ordeal she had to sustain to make it as a beacon of black struggle in Canada, worthy of being cannonized on the ten dollar bill. She was so oppressed that:
“After training in Montreal, Atlantic City and New York, she founded her own institution, Halifax’s Desmond School of Beauty Culture selling her own line of hair and skin products across Nova Scotia”
I get that it was racist, but I bet you could find any black person that had it ten times worse.
“The funny thing about that woman on the 10 dollar bill (Viola Desmond): she’s there because she would not sit in the black section of a cinema in 1946. ”
She was also not their first choice of black Canadian women, either. The first one was better known, but a racist or something…
The fact is, there was no ‘Black Section but a premium price for an additional cent, to sit in the better seats. She bought the cheaper ticket, and then insisted on seating in the premium seat. She was arrested for her conduct after she was asked to move to her correct seating with wailing and bawling and throwing a tantrum. The question now is, why did she take a day long trip from Halifax to a small town to watch a movie? It was a set up, just like the Rosa Park story.
Interesting what I am learning about Viola Desmond here, and not from our government sources.
And we chose to honor this woman instead of a founding father of confederation.
This country is truly facked.
Force everyone into the pods in the 15 minute smart cities. They won’t need cars. They won’t have any freedoms.
You’d think the mice could see that wouldn’t you?
But no you must adapt or be angry and you don’t even have a gun to your head yet.
Voting them out every once and awhile isn’t working.
If nudge doesn’t work, then shove. If shove doesn’t work, then shoot. We’re at stage 2 at the moment, moving right along to stage 3, with no one in the driver’s seat willing to slam on the breaks.
Control the mobility of any population, and you control that population.
Jails do that.
Control the mobility of any population and you contrl that population
Livestock producers do that to their animals.
the exceptionally unique irony all this.
tq pm housing crisis.
how so?
lm cashing in folks.
do the math my agent is.
its all cosmetic from here on out.
integrated alram system motion sensor floodlites all 4 sides roughed in survellance closed curcuit connexions.
foot and half combinations of attic insulation.
and 3 fruit trees. biggest pera crop ever had to be 400+ pounds.
bartlett and bosc. they cross pollinate.
the point is lm going to pick up (pun intended) gas powered RAM or etc, no more 3 yrs old ‘never need to buy another vehicle’ arrangement low mies looking 20000-30000
the ironic part? Taurus taken off the road 2007, failed emissions, been BICYCLING IT ever since lol!!! (mostly a raleigh 10 spd original purchase 1978)
l win either way.
because l saw this coming 40 years ago honest injun.
no reason just a hunch and here it is.
Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent in preparation for Easter.
Ash Wednesday is one of the two days of the year Catholics are supposed to be fasting (and abstaining. The other day is Good Friday)
Why do I bring this up? Because if the government gets it’s way, we will all be celebrating Ash Wednesday (Catholic or not) all year around.
I heard they’re going to close one lane of the transCanada to turn it into a bike lane. (Announced April 1 any year).
They’re done my, they know it, and they’re just hitting the conservatives with paint balls trying to promote an over-reaction.
Manson-eyes is completing his interview process with UNEP so he happy throwing shade.
If you were wondering how everyone is going to afford an electric car and how the grid would handle all that, you wondered wrong. They don’t want you to have a car, any car at all. You get to see a blade of grass once in a while if you win the leave-the-metropolis-bubble lottery.
And why all this nonsense ?
A Health Canada study published last year estimated this type of pollution was associated with about 2,300 premature deaths in Quebec in 2015.
Brought to you by the same Health Experts who estimated 100 million COVID deaths … so they HAD to take away all your freedoms and civil rights.
Sadly … CA has all but abandoned our roadways way back during the Moonbeam-Brown Admin.x3. Jerry Brown hated cars … and figured that abandoning roadways … letting them deteriorate and delaying any necessary widening … would “force” people out of their cars.
Well … Jerry and Gavin’s Marxist policies have resulted in a massive homeless problem … but actually. … the homeless live EXACTLY like these azzwipes want you to live. In the center of Urban hellholes … on the street … in portable/flexible housing (tents) and have NO commute. Welcome to the new Marxist Democrat plan for your future. You’ll ALL become homeless dependents on the government.
They want you totally miserable so that you would beg them for MAiD.
Enjoy it Toronto you freaking dweebs. We in the west are laughing at you retarded late sipping losers.
I’ll save my laughter until we’re independent. After that, I’ll buy you a drink and we’ll laugh together.
Like that will ever happen.
“While his government supports electrification of vehicles, it has also been investing heavily in other programs and plans to move Canadians out of private cars and onto public transit or active forms of transportation.”
The arrogance of so called “Liberals” never ceases to amaze, eh.
They can add a half-million people a year, but no new roads. So, I guess all those new immigrants will be walking where-ever they go.
Teleportation is an option that quantum physics experts are working on.
“Beam me up, Scotty”
Just drove across Canada last summer, Alberta to Manitoba awesome, the rest of it, complete shit, but scenic if you are brave enough to take your eyes off the single lane road or take a brutal detour through the States.
The trans Canada highway passes through NW Ontario. At that point it’s in the Boreal forest and on the Canadian shield. It’s 2 lane for 100’s of km. All truck traffic travels this route across Canada for there is no alternative.
About 10 years ago a beaver damn let go and washed out the trans Canada highway shutting it down for a week.
Whata country
Well folks, you all know the word and how to spell it, STUPID.
I remember that washout…I was travelling with my family from Barrie to Calgary. We arrived in the area late in the Afternoon. Had to stay in a local towns hotel, but they openend it up rather quickly if I recall correctly.
Hwy 17! Know it well! Nearly suffered a nose hit driving my U-Hall towing my car, as the driver of the other car decided he couldn’t wait before passing one of those rigs going in the other direction.
I avoided the collision by driving on the gravel shoulder… in a fully-loaded U-Haul… TOWING a car!
Translation: The highways in the Windsor-Quebec City corridor are adequate, and the rest of you can sod off.
“ The analysis we have done is that the network is perfectly adequate to respond to the needs we have.”
That might be true if you never leave a big city. But not so much elsewhere.
Take out the bridge at Nipigon (or build one end a foot higher than the other) and east west road traffic on the TCAN stops.
Have a road blockage at The split at Kakabeka Falls and you gotta drive south through Minnesota to go east or west.
Drive across Newfoundland and rattle your teeth loose from the potholes. (They fill them every year with VW Beetles)
Drive through Montreal and look out for falling concrete if you don’t break your car on the rough pavement first.
Drive through Toronto and burbs and waste 3+ hours of your life driving the 401 or spend $70 on the 407. ( you can drive Buffalo to Albany for 9 bucks on the thruway
The road infrastructure in Canada is atrocious.
Then there is the completely dismal cell service across the country anytime you drive off of the TCAN especially in the BC mountains.
Infrastructure period in Canada is bad and getting worse
How can these Liberals spend anything meaningful on roads , MRI, etc when all our tax dollars are going to their friends in “Brown Paper Bags”!? Our Debt will never be paid off——” The Budget will Balance Itself”!!
We have get rid of these Clowns!!!
Didn’t they say they wanted to double Canada’s population with immigration within the next 15 years or so?
How will the same infrastructure handle that?
It’s not a doubling, it’s a replacement of who is here with people who reproduce at a higher rate
Does that include not building new roads in the Ukraine? Of course our governing snotty elites travel via private planes and limos-let the peasants eat bugs. I am so sick of those snotty sneering liberals.
As long as the important people in Ottawa can still travel freely.