Fair! Definitely makes your calculus different than most.

Though insurance and maintenance/repairs are other per-mile costs you are forgetting.

Depreciation is another consideration, but that depends on uf you you plan to sell or drive until failure, and if you want to wrap electric batteries and motors under depreciation or maintenance.

https://findtheright.bike/bike/longtail-ebike?car=own&replace=25

If you own a car and replace 25% of trips wih an ebike, you’re up $3,000 over 5 years.

Think of people who are disabled and can’t walk the 600 meters to the metro station or get on a bike.

To be clear, those people should have mobility options available to them. But why do we put primacy on disabled people who can drive over disabled people who cannot drive?

Nice to see a party finally focusing on large centralized government tht costs the taxpayers more.

Very cool! Here are some other options:

https://mschausprojects.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-to-tow-bike-with-another-bike.html?m=1

https://schleptastic.com/

I’m also sad about getting the short one. But at least we can have a laugh about it.

thebeaverton.com/2026/05/local-nerd-disappointed-he-didnt-get-the-long-form-census

I feel attacked.

“Will likely be” “situation is fluid”

An initial guess that can be updated based on more information coming in.

For sure. And it was different when I didn’t have kids. I don’t bike commute with my kid below -20° windchill, since that’s the temperature my kid stops going outside for recces at. But in Eastern Ontario thats a couple days a year. And people with the means, or abilities, I have, must continue to use active and public transit even in extreme conditions as that is all that is availible to them.

We can also solve urban sprawl. There’s millennia of different solutions. We just choose not to and, at least in Canada, continue creating new sprawl.

Or we can reduce our infrastructure costs and make it easier to people to move around without needing to own a car. Maybe reduce some of that Euclidean zoning that forces so many to need to drive in the first place.

Cars were no replacement for pedal bikes when I lived in Yellowknife. Car just didn’t work on the cold, or required massive costs to preheat before driving. Walking and biking you just went.

Cars were great (and necessary) for getting out of the city in the summer though.

$4.6T is less than 1 year of combined federal, state, municipal, and individual transportation spending.

$4.2 T combined individual

$600 B federal

$400 B state + municipal

Why not? No issues in Canada, Finland, or Sweden that I’ve seen.

Electric cycles, scooters, and other micromobility already exist as EVs a hundredfold more affordable than electric cars.

Revenge of the Fifth

Home income. As mentioned in the article.

Which is $40k higher than the Canadian median home income of $75,000 in 2024.

I find it funny that we do this for roads basically every day, and nobody gives a shit. But since a railway is novel, this storm may come (or maybe not)

Privative air and personal motor vehicles; nationalize rail, transit, and micromobility.

ConspiracyGuy.meme

While I believe the opposition party should challenge everything, that doesn’t mean attacking everything.

Other ways to challange:

This bill is good, but have you considered adding/removing X.

Why has Canada gone Y direction when we have seen outcome Z from doing Y internationally.

Why is Canada going Y direction when we have also seen internationals do W.

I like the implication that being over 30 would make me an Old New Democrat.

I have mastered the Swindon Magic Roundabout.

I can take on anything now.