A.Tabor

Photographer, software developer, and spreader of sarcastic dark humour.

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@BrianPecic @mindoverdata @BikeShareTO You realize that there are people with vision and physical limitations that prevent them from operating a car, but do not prevent them from operating something suited for a bikelane, right?

What do you expect them to do for the next decade while they wait for your magic car?

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@Tainley_Sir @BrentToderian @tvo There is also the bit where neighbourhoods that are highly accessible to bike and transit are typically still reasonably accessible by people who would normally drive.

Neighbourhoods that aren't readily accessible by bike and transit don't have access to non-drivers...

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@CBCNews So they're promising to take money that should be going to pay for nurses and such and instead will send it off as a subsidy to enhance profits of people selling homes for less than $1 million?

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@linda77sa @CTVNewsVI You feel some people should be stripped of one of their fundamental rights just so you don't have to wait as long?

Do you also feel like some groups of people should be banned from public so you don't have to wait as long in traffic as well?

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@DavidZipper @CityLab The only way robotaxis will complement transit is if they are tightly restricted to short journey connector/local traffic, and blocked from running crosstown journeys.

Local neighbourhood on demand flex routes have a useful place and can scale. Cross town doesn't.

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@JenMsft But honestly I'm more likely to put on pjs and grab the bigger-small screen and go lounge in bed watching random movies till I nod off.

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@JenMsft Tiny screen buzzes and alerts me to check the small screen. Small screen tells me I need to go to the medium screen. Trying to do much on the medium screen frustrates me and I eventually go to the array of large screens.

And then I can go out to see the big screen...

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@calmenhancer @kemosite @Michphil1998 @ClimateNate More cars makes driving worse.

If you WANT to drive, then it is in your best interest to convince as many other people as you can to NOT drive, and therefore NOT be in YOUR way, or leaving their cars in YOUR parking space near where you want to go.

Why do you want things worse?

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@calmenhancer @Michphil1998 @kemosite @ClimateNate So it should be a privilege to easily and safely move around one's own community?...

And you are fine with that? You don't see that as a fundamental problem?

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@Michphil1998 @calmenhancer @kemosite @ClimateNate "If we had the space for 10 cars, why can't we put 20 even larger cars in the same space!"

If you value freedom, then you should value investment in the freedom of movement for people outside of a car. Cause not everyone can drive.

And freedoms that not everyone gets are?...

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@Michphil1998 @calmenhancer @kemosite @ClimateNate Everyone driving a large car and parking it at work, when large portions of trips could actually be made with smaller vehicles that need less infrastructure and parking, is not practical...

The argument isn't that "No one should drive!", it is biking anywhere should be safe...

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@calmenhancer @kemosite @Michphil1998 @ClimateNate I'm not asking for 'everyone to return to pre-industrial life' - For one bikes aren't a pre-industrial item. Neither are trains.

And I'm not sure if you've ever sat in urban traffic behind a pile of cars... But they're kind of the opposite of rapid transportation.

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@GreatGeoffGiant @taxspendlib @amoralorealis So if I write a piece of software and sell it around the globe, that is a rural resource extraction effort?

BC exports far more than just natural resources...

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@BrentToderian I don't shop at Costco because it is three towns over, and at LEAST a 20 minute car drive away. Assuming good traffic, which is increasingly less likely and often randomly becomes over an hour's drive, one way.

Or I could walk the 5 minutes to my local supermarket... hard choice

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@TheCromenockle @EricDLombardi Because a bike takes less space and is far faster in urban traffic, and they can move faster and safer when given a protected route.

Punishing EVERYONE because selfish people wish to take their luxury private property into dense urban areas is wrong.

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@TheCromenockle @EricDLombardi Do drivers not benefit from having fewer large vehicles clogging the limited road space ahead of them?

Are you also claiming that people who do not currently cycle -because there is no routes going where they wish to that they feel safe on- cannot benefit from new cycle lanes?

[A.Tabor @RealLuckless]

@TheCromenockle @EricDLombardi Commuters don't have access to transit? All those busses and trains headed into the city can't be used by them?

The only way to decrease average commute times is to clear the way for faster modes of travel. It is not by allowing individuals to clog streets with a luxury item.