NarrativeBear 13h ago • 100%
If you were the only person in a vehicle on the roadway stopped by a signaled intersection its probably very inconvenient for you, and you may ask for the signal to be removed as its a barrier.
Now if you add in all the other vehicle traffic that uses that roadway with you, that signal now serves a very specific purpose to make your commute more efficient and safe. Without that signal, that exact same intersection would now be completely gridlocked with probably a few collisions, meaning you would get no where quick.
That same light is also a type of traffic calming as it slows vehicle traffic to make the roadway safer for all road users, this includes pedestrians, cycalists and motorists.
NarrativeBear 14h ago • 100%
Jokes on you, in most cases I deploy in 2-3 seconds.
NarrativeBear 1d ago • 100%
And this is exactly why its so important to have protected and raised cycling paths to prevent altercations between the different modes of transportation.
This is also the exact same reason we have pedestrian sidewalks separated from vehicle traffic to prevent altercation such as this, and its why things like bollards, planters, curbs, and trees are so important between roadways and pedestrian zones to minimise stress both ways.
Safer roadways are not where we remove barriers for cars, but put up barriers to make traffic flow more efficiently and effectively.
ie. Barriers are things like signaled intersections, crosswalks, curbs, curb extensions, bollards, painted lanes, raised sidewalks, raised cycling paths, planters.
If you were the only person in a vehicle on the road stopped by a signaled intersection its probably very inconvenient for you, and you may ask for the signal to be removed as its a barrier. But if you add in the other vehicle traffic that uses the road with you, that signal now serves a very specific purpose to make your commute more efficient and safe. Without that signal, that exact same intersection would now be completely gridlocked with probably a few collisions, meaning you would get no where quick.
NarrativeBear 2d ago • 100%
Very nice! Where I'm at they would not even think about putting walking paths on a bridge for a tram, some odd mentality about it being "unsafe" or something. Meanwhile sidewalks are placed on bridges with highspeed vehicle traveling inches away from people without any buffer zones.
NarrativeBear 3d ago • 100%
Could these have been done a lot better with greater design intent? Absolutely! Here are some great examples from a neighbourhood in Vienna.
Safer and more plessent streets (and roads) are about controlling the flow of traffic. Creating barriers is what makes roadways more efficent, its not about removing all barriers.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20991847 > City councillor says the project is a low-cost effort to add some greenery. Others say it takes away already limited parking space in the Plateau. > > The general public seems to be missing the point of the curb extensions as a traffic calming initiative with the added benefits of greenery. Instead focusing on the removal of parking spaces, and not on the increased visibility and lower vehicle speeds these types of installation promote.
NarrativeBear 3d ago • 100%
Could these have been done a lot better with greater design intent? Absolutely! Here are some great examples from a neighbourhood in Vienna.
Safer and more plessent streets (and roads) are about controlling the flow of traffic. Creating barriers is what makes roadways more efficent, its not about removing all barriers.
City councillor says the project is a low-cost effort to add some greenery. Others say it takes away already limited parking space in the Plateau. The general public seems to be missing the point of the curb extensions as a traffic calming initiative with the added benefits of greenery. Instead focusing on the removal of parking spaces, and not on the increased visibility and lower vehicle speeds these types of installation promote.
NarrativeBear 4d ago • 100%
Look into Rufus, it will help you create a bootable USB with windows 11 and you can use it to do a upgrade or clean install from your windows 10 installation (clean install preferred IMO), it will even help bypass the hardware requirements and you can even remove the email account and use a local account. Make sure to use or write down your windows 10 activation/license for a clean install.
That being said you could potentially still run the old wondows OS, but as time goes on new exploits could be found that can compromise the OS. If its behind a firewall such as your router its safer, but there is still the possibility of it being infected way off into the future.
Here is a video of windows XP running on a PC connected directly to the internet with no firewall. Its infected almost instantaneously. (Dont try this at home).
NarrativeBear 5d ago • 100%
Can I get this shipped to my house? Or do I need Amazon Prime?
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Why stop at removing things like bike lanes? We should also remove street parking, sidewalks, bus stops, crosswalk and crossways, and board up all storefronts. Turn those slow city streets into wide high speed roads so people can get through the city quicker. Drivers dont stop to enjoy the areas they drive through, they are only driving through to get to their destination on the otherside of town.
NarrativeBear 1w ago • 100%
The one upside to a dedicated streaming box is the guaranteed security updates.
Netflix for example may choose to support the app on your fire stick or nvidia shield for a longer time then on a specific TV.
NarrativeBear 1w ago • 100%
I do appreciat the fact that sony TVs have native android, the TV menues are also more intuative IMO
Though regardless of the TVs OS, its best to not plug a TV directly into the internet. If you can afford it, get a dedicated android box, fire stick, or any other smart dongle you can afford.
TVs, your kitchen fridge, or even cars now seem to be a privacy nightmare. Updates also dont happen often enough or the manufacture chooses to drop support leaving consumers home networks at risk.
NarrativeBear 2w ago • 100%
Looked like Toronto to me too. Very similar design to the Gardiner Expressway going through downtown Toronto between the waterfront and CN Tower.
NarrativeBear 2w ago • 88%
I am guessing Shanghai China.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/QoGn9JKuKbNL4wSo8
https://maps.app.goo.gl/aWvVKzxK8xD1akBW7?g_st=ac
We don't need AI to design nightmares like this for us. We do it to ourselves.
NarrativeBear 2w ago • 100%
That's what she said!
NarrativeBear 3w ago • 100%
Whenever I see barriers like this I always think they should be "car centric" and not "pedestrian centric".
Cars drive through this area like nothing changed on their route, pedestrian then are met with large barriers.
It should be the other way around. Control the flow of car traffic to make it safer for both parties (cars and pedestrians). Then priority becomes about active travel like pedestrians walking or cycling.
NarrativeBear 3w ago • 100%
What if you take the red pill and its just another simulation?
I would recommended people watch Pantheon on AMC. Two great seasons and it dives into some interesting "are we living in a simulation questions".
NarrativeBear 3w ago • 100%
Not gona lie, I do like the speed limit leaderboard. Though I would see people trying to get the "high score" on something like this.
ottawa.citynews.ca
Provincial police stopped a driver on Highway 417 after they crossed over the double lines into the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane. “A reminder that vehicles must have two or more people in it or have a green licence plate to be eligible,” police note in a post on X.
NarrativeBear 4w ago • 100%
We've tired nothing and we're all out of ideas!
The Ontario government is considering bringing forward legislation that could prohibit the installation of bike lanes when lanes for motor vehicles are removed as a result, sources say. Siemiatycki said "this government has signalled that the car is king," pointing to prior steps the governing Progressive Conservatives (PCs) have taken to ease costs for drivers. He sees the PCs as making a clear play for the votes of motorists, and believes the policy would also appeal to many drivers frustrated with congestion on the roads.
NarrativeBear 1mo ago • 100%
Kind of like asking "are we living in a simulation", but not wanting to know the answer. Even if you really strongly believe its true.
The difference between this AI app and Twitter being, you know its a simulation.
Does that make it any less real though would be the question, once you knew?
NarrativeBear 1mo ago • 100%
When there is even a inkling of doubt a person should not be executed.
NarrativeBear 1mo ago • 85%
Ding ding ding
Streaming is the new cable, just more expensive now. Each platform is like a bundle of TV channels.
London woman stopped to help man who'd collapsed at in the sidewalk at Richmond and Oxford But what made her challenge particularly difficult was that the drivers trying to get through the intersection honked with impatience and anger, swerving around her and darting through the intersection as she tried to help the man. "They were acting like I was a delinquent and I was just trying to help someone," she said. "Drivers will stop for Canada geese but you've got a man in distress and no one cares." Paramedics arrived shortly after and took the man who'd been struggling to hospital. Litsas doesn't know what caused him to collapse or how he's doing now. After the ordeal, she posted on the social media site Reddit about how some of the drivers chose to honk instead of help. "I was frustrated, I was a bit shaken up just having the traffic whiz by you and it's just an unnerving position to be in," she said. The purpose behind her post is to ask that drivers show some patience and empathy if a pedestrian appears to be struggling. "Stop, put your hazards on," she said. "It's a car against a human being and I'm not going to win against a five-tonne vehicle."
toronto@lemmy.world Pre-construction work for the Scarborough subway extension project began in 2021 at the northeast corner of Sheppard Avenue East and McCowan Road in Scarborough. Toronto City council and Metrolinx are fighting over who will pay for a proposed link at Kennedy Station between the subway extension and the planned Eglinton East LRT. (Metrolinx)
Pre-construction work for the Scarborough subway extension project began in 2021 at the northeast corner of Sheppard Avenue East and McCowan Road in Scarborough. Toronto City council and Metrolinx are fighting over who will pay for a proposed link at Kennedy Station between the subway extension and the planned Eglinton East LRT. (Metrolinx)
Vandertop, a co-founder of Don't Mess with the Don, says the restaurant chain Tim Hortons has a big problem when it comes to litter. The registered charity, run by volunteers, cleans up trash from ravines in the Don Valley and says it has picked up about 136,078 kilograms of garbage in the past six years. The number one brand it finds in its garbage cleanups is Tim Hortons, Vandertop said. "Imagine — Tim Hortons has more than 4,000 stores across Canada now and that would be millions and millions of cups and lids all strewn out throughout our parks, streets, wild spaces. And this is only cups and lids. There's also food wrappers, containers and other beverage containers," she said. "I think Tim Hortons, as a flagship Canadian company, has a tremendous opportunity here to do something good for the world and for the environment that we live in. This is not in line with the times." Karen Wirsig, senior program manager for plastics at Environmental Defence, an environmental advocacy organization, said it's important to hold corporations accountable for the waste they produce. Wirsig said Tim Hortons is a major generator of single-use plastic waste when it comes to its takeout packaging.
Vandertop, a co-founder of Don't Mess with the Don, says the restaurant chain Tim Hortons has a big problem when it comes to litter. The registered charity, run by volunteers, cleans up trash from ravines in the Don Valley and says it has picked up about 136,078 kilograms of garbage in the past six years. The number one brand it finds in its garbage cleanups is Tim Hortons, Vandertop said. "Imagine — Tim Hortons has more than 4,000 stores across Canada now and that would be millions and millions of cups and lids all strewn out throughout our parks, streets, wild spaces. And this is only cups and lids. There's also food wrappers, containers and other beverage containers," she said. "I think Tim Hortons, as a flagship Canadian company, has a tremendous opportunity here to do something good for the world and for the environment that we live in. This is not in line with the times." Karen Wirsig, senior program manager for plastics at Environmental Defence, an environmental advocacy organization, said it's important to hold corporations accountable for the waste they produce. Wirsig said Tim Hortons is a major generator of single-use plastic waste when it comes to its takeout packaging.
canada@lemmy.ca The province is in the midst of shifting the cost burden of trash away from municipalities (and municipal taxpayers), onto companies that make and sell products that generate waste. For material that fills up blue boxes — including non-alcoholic drink containers — industry began paying an increased share of the costs last year and is to cover all of the costs from 2026. How it works: companies pay fees, based on the amount of waste material they create, to organizations that manage their sector's recycling programs. The theory of the system — known as extended producer responsibility — is that it gives companies an incentive to reduce their packaging waste and increase recycling rates. Otherwise companies have to absorb the fees as a cost of doing business or pass them on to consumers. When the government kick-started work on the deposit-return system last year, Piccini said it would "enable consumers to receive a refund for returning used beverage containers." For more than a year, momentum was building toward a key shift to try to improve things. Premier Doug Ford's government was seriously considering creating a deposit-return system for soft drink containers, a system that's already in place in eight other provinces and that already exists for beer, wine and spirits in Ontario. Then suddenly, with zero advance notice and no public announcement — and with a potential LCBO strike dominating the news — senior government officials scrapped plans for the deposit-return system. What follows is the inside story of how, in a battle with big financial implications for companies and big environmental implications for Ontario, Doug Ford's government sided with Big Grocery over Big Beverage. By abandoning deposit-return, the government bowed to pressure from the supermarket chains, said Wallis of Environmental Defence. "It's frustrating the amount of power that they seem to have and the amount of influence that they seem to have over policy," Wallis said. "These are companies that make money, lots of money from selling these drinks to us," she said. "Them refusing to participate in the kind of program that would actually keep these containers out of our environment is honestly shameful." The notion that consumers could face added costs under the deposit system is now the government's key justification for scrapping it.
The province is in the midst of shifting the cost burden of trash away from municipalities (and municipal taxpayers), onto companies that make and sell products that generate waste. For material that fills up blue boxes — including non-alcoholic drink containers — industry began paying an increased share of the costs last year and is to cover all of the costs from 2026. How it works: companies pay fees, based on the amount of waste material they create, to organizations that manage their sector's recycling programs. The theory of the system — known as extended producer responsibility — is that it gives companies an incentive to reduce their packaging waste and increase recycling rates. Otherwise companies have to absorb the fees as a cost of doing business or pass them on to consumers. When the government kick-started work on the deposit-return system last year, Piccini said it would "enable consumers to receive a refund for returning used beverage containers." For more than a year, momentum was building toward a key shift to try to improve things. Premier Doug Ford's government was seriously considering creating a deposit-return system for soft drink containers, a system that's already in place in eight other provinces and that already exists for beer, wine and spirits in Ontario. Then suddenly, with zero advance notice and no public announcement — and with a potential LCBO strike dominating the news — senior government officials scrapped plans for the deposit-return system. What follows is the inside story of how, in a battle with big financial implications for companies and big environmental implications for Ontario, Doug Ford's government sided with Big Grocery over Big Beverage. By abandoning deposit-return, the government bowed to pressure from the supermarket chains, said Wallis of Environmental Defence. "It's frustrating the amount of power that they seem to have and the amount of influence that they seem to have over policy," Wallis said. "These are companies that make money, lots of money from selling these drinks to us," she said. "Them refusing to participate in the kind of program that would actually keep these containers out of our environment is honestly shameful." The notion that consumers could face added costs under the deposit system is now the government's key justification for scrapping it.
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Charlie Pinkerton, who explains why Doug Ford is featured in a new video flipping burgers and talking booze. He also breaks down the big revelations contained in newly released documents about the Ontario Science Centre.
A small, odd traffic island was recently installed in the middle of the cycling lane that runs along the north side of Adelaide Street West, at the northwest corner of York Street.
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A small, odd traffic island was recently installed in the middle of the cycling lane that runs along the north side of Adelaide Street West, at the northwest corner of York Street.
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In a video message posted on X on Monday, Premier Doug Ford announced the release of the tech tool that allows Ontario residents to locate stores, other than the LCBO, selling alcohol. “Our new interactive map shows thousands of convenient options where you can still buy beer, wine, spirits and other drinks across the province.” The release of the map comes days after LCBO workers walked off the job prompting province-wide closures of the government-run liquor store. The announcement is stirring up angry reactions from many residents and city officials, who accused Ford of union busting and failing to address pressing socio-economic issues. “While the Ford government wastes billions of tax dollars, schools need fixing, hospital wait times need attention, cities need support for transit, services & infrastructure, the science centre needs saving and people struggle to make ends meet. Yet, this guy’s priority is beer,” Councillor Josh Matlow wrote on X on Monday. “You’re using public dollars to break a strike, undermine workers rights and to destroy an agency that generates $2.5 billion for healthcare and other services. But this app looks cute. Why didn’t you use this kind of tech to save lives from COVID19 or to find ERs,” one X user wrote. “Can I get a map of where I can find emergency clinics that are open?,” another person said.
nowtoronto.com
In a video message posted on X on Monday, Premier Doug Ford announced the release of the tech tool that allows Ontario residents to locate stores, other than the LCBO, selling alcohol. “Our new interactive map shows thousands of convenient options where you can still buy beer, wine, spirits and other drinks across the province.” The release of the map comes days after LCBO workers walked off the job prompting province-wide closures of the government-run liquor store. The announcement is stirring up angry reactions from many residents and city officials, who accused Ford of union busting and failing to address pressing socio-economic issues. “While the Ford government wastes billions of tax dollars, schools need fixing, hospital wait times need attention, cities need support for transit, services & infrastructure, the science centre needs saving and people struggle to make ends meet. Yet, this guy’s priority is beer,” Councillor Josh Matlow wrote on X on Monday. “You’re using public dollars to break a strike, undermine workers rights and to destroy an agency that generates $2.5 billion for healthcare and other services. But this app looks cute. Why didn’t you use this kind of tech to save lives from COVID19 or to find ERs,” one X user wrote. “Can I get a map of where I can find emergency clinics that are open?,” another person said.
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All we know is that the Eglinton LRT will not open for another three months, every day that Metrolinx does not give a defined opening date.
