What would you see if you were able to read excerpts from an encyclopedia written in another "world-line"? No doubt, there would be some details that one might recognize; but much of it might seem rather strange.

As an illustration of sorts, I am including a few excerpts from an encyclopedia found in a "world-line" where two or three extra British ( Read more... )

... and they have just Proven how clueless they are - again.

As CBC.ca reported in this story, the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) has ordered that more land or “greenfield space” be set aside for developers. This is so said developers may create yet more urban sprawl, farther and farther from this city’s center.

In an era of Peak Oil and consequent ( Read more... )

This CBC article should drive the point home for the Ottawa-Gatineau region - motorists are playing (a slightly safer kind of) Russian roulette, but they usually do not even realize it.

What most people also do not realize is why we remain so dependent on cars just to leave our homes. The transit strike of 2008-09 certainly did not help; many ( Read more... )

Sometimes, it seems, we never really learn much.

As I noted this past Labour Day weekend in 2009, Edmonton decided to retire all its trolleybuses in May of last year. Since then, a civic election is coming up, and a local named Brian Tucker reported the following a few weeks ago:
Service has worsened considerably on the former trolley routes. The ( Read more... )

A lot of people have stated that cars are bad, but they are regularly rebutted by articles such as this one from the Competitive Enterprise Institute [CEI] in the U.S. [A related one from the same place may be found here.] However, most if not all of these articles suffer from a fatal flaw: they do not deal with the root cause of car-dependence ( Read more... )

As I noted in this entry, this day would have come sooner or later, but I am sorry to hear it happened sooner.

Apparently, Edmonton City Council recently encountered a large budget deficit (due to the ongoing economic mess) and has decided to sacrifice something that helped save the environment. As of May 2 this year, the last trolleybuses ran in ( Read more... )

DON YOUR GAS MASKS!

You would think that, in the wake of soaring crude oil and related fuel prices, that everyone would recognize that alternate methods of public transit, such as “light rail” (formerly known as trams or streetcars) and electric trolleybuses, are worth keeping.

Evidently, that kind of common sense does not hold, based on the ( Read more... )

The following two news items reminds me of a long-running problem all North Americans tend to ignore:

• Deluge of road deaths over long weekend
• Rash of weekend traffic deaths: Three die, others hurt on city roads

The fact of the matter is that cars kill both people and animals, and will continue to kill until we either require all motorists to be ( Read more... )