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Taking the bus to work in the early morning I see them, in the long necklace of headlights backed up before the tunnel. It is the rare car among them that carries more than one person.
To watch them is to be struck by how over built and inefficient cars are for the job. These are mostly office workers going from Point A to Point B, and every one of them requires copy hermes bags several tons of steel and glass to do so.
Cars create the hell that is commuting, but and this is their self perpetuating irony what better way to escape that hell than to wrap oneself in a quiet cocoon of steel and glass while listening to the radio and sipping your morning coffee. What self indulgence. What unthinking ease. Outside it's hell, but brother, inside it's heaven.
Call a commuter on that self indulgence and you'll hear all the excuses: I need my car during the day, public transit is too slow or nonexistent, I need to get home to pick up the kids from school.
For some, that may be true. For the majority, it's just blather. It's the blithe self justification for the fact that, at heart, they just don't care to get out of their car.
None of this has entered the conversation in the debate over the coming transit plebiscite. According to the No side, the fault lies, not with human nature, but with the operation of our public transit system. To hear them, Metro Vancouver's transit is on par with Baghdad's, and so badly run that instituting a small tax to fund future projects would be throwing money down the drain.
This is, again, blather. Those rare times, for example, when the Expo line has malfunctioned have been blown way out of proportion, as if it were proof the whole system has to be abandoned and remade. It doesn't. A transit line malfunction is not a disaster. It's a glitch.
But human nature? That's way harder to fix. Motion studies show that, on average, people won't walk to a bus stop if it's more than 400 metres away. That's a five minute walk. Any longer than that and the numbers drop precipitously.
That, in our modern world, is the limit of our tolerance. That's assuming people are willing to take the bus in the first place.
Catering to such expectations is very hard to do.
Yet so far, the debate over the transit plebiscite has been all about money and the cost to taxpayers.
What you do not hear about is the cost of the havoc that cars wreak. Aside from the enormous government subsidies motorists enjoy, aside from the space they take, their societal cost is primarily environmental. It is that enormous and imminently catastrophic cost the No side ignores. But a 0.5 per cent rise in the sales tax? Horror.
Projections have a million more people coming to Metro in the next 25 years. In the absence of the proposed transit plan, projections also call for 600,000 additional cars.
With the transit plan fully realized, Metro's engineers estimate that in that time frame, the increased transit system will be able to effect an annual reduction of about 550,000 tonnes in greenhouse gases, or enough to keep it to present levels. Even with the transit plan, we'll just be treading water.
All those car commuters strung along the highway? They might cocoon themselves from their daily hell but not the unnerving thought that, incrementally, with every mile, they're hurtling themselves and their loved ones toward some greater disaster. I bet they wonder, as I do, if their car addiction isn't jeopardizing the future of their children and grandchildren.
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Taking the bus to work in the early morning I see them, in the long necklace of headlights backed up before the tunnel. It is the rare car among them that carries more than one person.
To watch them is to be struck by how over built and inefficient cars are for the job. These are mostly office workers going from Point A to Point B, and every one of them requires copy hermes bags several tons of steel and glass to do so.
Cars create the hell that is commuting, but and this is their self perpetuating irony what better way to escape that hell than to wrap oneself in a quiet cocoon of steel and glass while listening to the radio and sipping your morning coffee. What self indulgence. What unthinking ease. Outside it's hell, but brother, inside it's heaven.
Call a commuter on that self indulgence and you'll hear all the excuses: I need my car during the day, public transit is too slow or nonexistent, I need to get home to pick up the kids from school.
For some, that may be true. For the majority, it's just blather. It's the blithe self justification for the fact that, at heart, they just don't care to get out of their car.
None of this has entered the conversation in the debate over the coming transit plebiscite. According to the No side, the fault lies, not with human nature, but with the operation of our public transit system. To hear them, Metro Vancouver's transit is on par with Baghdad's, and so badly run that instituting a small tax to fund future projects would be throwing money down the drain.
This is, again, blather. Those rare times, for example, when the Expo line has malfunctioned have been blown way out of proportion, as if it were proof the whole system has to be abandoned and remade. It doesn't. A transit line malfunction is not a disaster. It's a glitch.
But human nature? That's way harder to fix. Motion studies show that, on average, people won't walk to a bus stop if it's more than 400 metres away. That's a five minute walk. Any longer than that and the numbers drop precipitously.
That, in our modern world, is the limit of our tolerance. That's assuming people are willing to take the bus in the first place.
Catering to such expectations is very hard to do.
Yet so far, the debate over the transit plebiscite has been all about money and the cost to taxpayers.
What you do not hear about is the cost of the havoc that cars wreak. Aside from the enormous government subsidies motorists enjoy, aside from the space they take, their societal cost is primarily environmental. It is that enormous and imminently catastrophic cost the No side ignores. But a 0.5 per cent rise in the sales tax? Horror.
Projections have a million more people coming to Metro in the next 25 years. In the absence of the proposed transit plan, projections also call for 600,000 additional cars.
With the transit plan fully realized, Metro's engineers estimate that in that time frame, the increased transit system will be able to effect an annual reduction of about 550,000 tonnes in greenhouse gases, or enough to keep it to present levels. Even with the transit plan, we'll just be treading water.
All those car commuters strung along the highway? They might cocoon themselves from their daily hell but not the unnerving thought that, incrementally, with every mile, they're hurtling themselves and their loved ones toward some greater disaster. I bet they wonder, as I do, if their car addiction isn't jeopardizing the future of their children and grandchildren.
A family affair: St Viateur Bagel celebrates 60 yearsBagels are the great equalizer. Everybody eats them, everybody loves them and everybody is invited to the bagel factory's block party on Sunday.
Vaughn Palmer: Vote verdict in Comox will clear political pictureTuesday fake Hermes bag maintenance saw the NDP lead trimmed to 12, then the Liberals pulled ahead by three and, as counting replica hermes handbags ended.
Daphne Bramham: Preserving Chinatown should be a local and national priorityGreat cities have texture. They have buildings, places and communities that reflect their unique character.
Daphne Bramham: Granville Island reboot lacks a daring vision for the futureGranville Island was one bold, big idea. Never before had industrial land been reclaimed as public space.
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