NarrativeBear

If only we lived in a world were we had articles talking about car infrastructure being closed because of it being subsidized way to heavily.

Or employees using AI to generate their work/content now need to spend equally as much time reviewing their generated work/content.

It's like being a manager and asking your employee that you know always fucks up to do something. You have two options, get the employee to write it, then you check it after, or you write it yourself and save time on explaining or checking.

There's a common pattern with public transportation projects in North America in general.

When a project is built city planners use the opportunity to widen streets, roads, build or upgrade bridges, and do this all in a effort to not diminish the amount of lanes previously available to vehicle traffic. Something even adding a new lane where one did not exist beforehand.

This means when new stations go in, or there is any above ground transit corridor, a good chunk of the cash gets funneled into "car centric initiatives" as opposed being solely allocated for the transit line.

In the area I live we have a tram line that went in not to long ago. It has both above and below ground sections. Along the whole corridor the city street was repaved, and at the street level routes the street was completely reconfigured and widened. This includes sidewalks, benches, planting, landscape, curbs, mediums, traffic lights and signaling, electrical, and storm water. The costs ballooned obviously.

It's almost like city planners were working on the assumption the public was still going to choose to drive, as opposed to take the new transit line. So all efforts and funds were put to work in a way not to inconvenience drive in the slightest.

So in the end the project costs are higher, and the public does not question all the shiny new car infrastructure, but then proceeds to ask why the transit line was so expensive in the end.

Its nice seeing a transit station thats along a pedestrian area as opposed next to or in-between 6 lanes of vehicle traffic.

Transit and transit station should always bring people as close to where they want to go as possible. Example having a station next to a malls entrance or directly underneath, or having a subway that connects directly to a airport terminal.

I know this one! A parking lot!

Are there any guides you follow so I can get a better idea how or what I should be aware of when moving from gmail go mailbox or something similar.

I have a few domain names, but wonder how I would use those names with mailbox for example, and what was your process for moving all emails from gmail to your new mail provider?

Dos you start by mostly forwarding everything and then slowly switching email accounts on all your online services? Or is there something I am missing?

If I happen to have a domain, but only have a free tier of gmail can I still do the DNS recognition you mentioned?

WTF is going on in Ontario, each day I honestly loose hope just a little bit more with the direction the world is heading.

Nextcloud was great for getting me de-Googled. I use it for contacts, calendars, notes, files storage, photo uploads.

Everything self-hosted and backed up with snapshot every few hours.

When switching over to a paid mail service like this, do you start by forwarding all your your emails from google (or another service) and then slowly start migrating accounts to the new mail address?

Or is there anything I might be missing?

Mailbox looks interesting to me, and have really been wanting to ditch my gmail, it's the last thing I have left under Google at the moment.

I honestly feel like I should drive down and park my car in their brand new right lane.

Removing the dedicated protected cycle lane was a step backwards. Instead these lanes should have been improved and made permanent. Similar to what is further east on Bloor with dedicated bike bananas at intersection and raised lanes to prevent cars mounting the curbs.

All other two lanes streets are completely backed up in Toronto with to much out of town commuter traffic.

Congestion pricing for anyone commuting into the city is the solution, and maybe making it zoned would definitely elevate the amount of vehicles on the roadways in the city, and even outside of the city as a result. Its why driving down the 407 is generally better then slowly inching along on the 401 as a similar example.

For a zoned approach I would propose something laid out like a bullseye. The center would be the financial district. The next zone would extend maybe up to eglinton or something like that, and the final zone up to the edge of Torontos city limits.

A 3 dollar charge would only be applied at evey zone change/crossing, and only when driving into the center of this bullseye layout. So for example if you drive into the city from let say Newmarket into the financial district, you pay $3 each zone you cross for a total of $9 dollars by the end of your commute. And when you drive out you don't get charged.

If you live inside of a said zone and you only commute by car inside of a said zone you don't pay a toll. So realistic all people living inside of Toronto would rarely pay anything (unless of course they are commuting out of the city for work or any other personal reason).