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.
I’m all for urban density and reducing new suburban sprawl, but it already exists. Yellowknife isn’t a very representative example.
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.