E-bike then 🤣

I mean, that’s an option too. Bike could pay 1/8th-1/12th the amount cars do based on amount of road used.

Of course, there’s the whole problem of cars don’t fucking pay for the roads. In Ontario, vehicle registration is a whopping $32. Since the average car lifespan in Canada is around 11 years, Ontario vehicles pay less than $3 per year (less however much of the registration fee is administration and overhead)

Since bikes take up abouth 1/10th the road, they would pay $3 for registration.

I am more than happy to pay road tax by fourth power law axle weight on all my bicycles.

At the same time it could become unreasonable for individuals to research all the local ordinances they may encounter in a 20 mile trip.

It is extremely reasonable. Drivers are always responsible to learn the laws of places they drive. Are you only required to follow the law of your plate’s state/province? Is turning right on red in NYC okay if you are plated outside the city?

One of my coworkers believes bicycles cause car congestion. All car congestion, even the stuff on highways.

1. it is more impressive due to gender gap and gender inequality indexes on Ghana.

2. It makes her a positive role model for women in Ghana and other countries.

3. It’s more flavour to the story.

An electric car uses 10-20x more batteries than a PEV, the downside is cars, not EVs.

Me proofread good.

Road salt is really only effect to around -10°C anyways. Having lived places that get some fairly brutal winters, salt isn’t even that effective anyways.

Grit/sand mixtures tend to be much more effective regardless of temperature. Winter tires should be mandatory in places that require them (I’ve seen chains allowed instead of winters in some areas, but I know little about them). Maintaining some snowpack instead of a pavement clear can reduce the freeze/thaw amplification effect of pavement and other road surfaces (though that requires temps consistently below 0°).

Anyways, there are oodles of effective snow and ice clearing and management techniques that don’t require salt.

While the Nazi’s rolled out the Autobahn, it had little to no military significance. Interior movements biased trains to reduce fuel costs. And how exactly would an interior road help a blitzkrieg tactic into another country?

Car driving also needs to be less subsidised.

I didn’t realize soft throttling is cruise control.

Not sure what the laws are there, but here you need to slow down or change lanes.

Why would you be using cruise control around parked cars?

If parking sell/rents for more than housing, you should be building parking garages instead of condos. Peter you aren’t maximising potential of the land.

Allowing storage in parking stalls is inefficient. They should be leased to people who want to pay. Massive lanes between storage lockers is inefficient space usage. Task cabinets blocking sight lines is a safety issue. Just use strife lockers.

Also it would be more cost effective to rent finished area for storage instead of parking spaces, since the later rents for more.

It’s not something to agree or disagree with, traffic evaporation exists and cities which remove, charge for our increase charges on parking see reduced traffic volumes.

parking again is cheap relative to the finished area per square foot

Rough estimates are $90 / sq foot for parking, $160 / sq foot for finished construction.

But guess which one sells and rents for more?

For no parking? Short term they do stupid shit (like a large event). Long term they just get rid of cars.

Ground and semi-recessed also makes a fantastic space for retail, which makes more money than parking. Digging subterranean JUST to add parking only adds costs, you don’t have to keep digging (or if you do, you can solid fill instead of putting in parking garages).

Again, nothing stopping people from putting them in, but don’t think it’s free space or inexpensive to do.

There’s nothing stopping people from building them.

There’s just no longer something forcing people to build them.

Just get a sled.

Less gas, no warming up, no worries about plowing.