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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Mar 21, 2024, Sharx335 wrote   
   (in article ):   
      
   > On 2024-03-21 3:14 p.m., David Dalton wrote:   
   > > (Canada)   
   > >   
   > > Instead of the federal government giving back much of the Carbon   
   > > Tax in rebates, they should direct the money to improving public   
   > > transit nationally, including in rural areas.   
   > >   
   > > For example, in recent years there has been a loss of Greyhound   
   > > in Western Canada, and that contributes to the ongoing crisis   
   > > of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, since   
   > > many of them resort to hitchhiking.   
   > >   
   > > On a local (Newfoundland) basis, several years ago there was   
   > > a loss of Fleetline bus, which used to operate on the coastal   
   > > Conception Bay Highway between St. John's and Conception   
   > > Bay North, and which was a valuable service fo students   
   > > travelling home for the weekend and for seniors and others   
   > > going into the city for medical appointments or shopping.   
   > >   
   > > But of course there could also be an improvement in public   
   > > transit in urban (including small cities) and suburban areas.   
   > >   
   > > And indeed, the planned transition to electric cars   
   > > is not practical; instead (or as well) there must be a   
   > > rapid evolution of private cars to public transit, probably   
   > > including shared/communal cars in less dense areas.   
   > >   
   > > And I think the NDP and Green Party would support the   
   > > LIberals in such an initiative, maybe even to the extent of   
   > > forming a coalition before the next election.   
      
   > Hell will freeze over before *I* "evolve" to public transit. It's   
   > inconvenient, slow, not safe and takes a lot longer to get anywhere.   
   > Time for you eco-nuts to wake up and stop being so naive. The sky is NOT   
   > falling. Climates have always been changing. The best PRACTICAL way to   
   > deal with so-called apocalyptic climate change is to reduce population   
   > growth and to ADAPT, repeat ADAPT, and not to beggar the economies of   
   > western nations. ANd look carefully at the lifestyles of your   
   > hypocritical leaders, e.g. Trudeau, AL Gore, and the king of hypocrites,   
   > David Suzuki.   
      
   I don’t mean current public transit, but an improved system   
   made feasible partly by increased usage.   
      
   Eventually I was thinking along the lines of a hyperloop   
   system backbone, perhaps partly funded by Elon Musk.   
   However there may need to be other short-term options.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)