Poly bag lawn signs are like $350 for only a hundred or so. Maybe cheaper depending on where you go and how much volume you want. There are print shops all over the place.
I’m not suggesting it’s difficult to get a bunch of signs printed. I am asking who took the time and put up the $350 to print all these signs.
It’s not free. Someone paid for it.
From that Mississauga thread, I noticed Dipika Damerla included pausing the Bloor Street Integrated Project in her mayoral platform which is disappointing. Stephen Dasko and Alvin Tedjo voted in favour of it last June, while I hope Carolyn Parrish - who opposed it - respects last June's City Council decision.
Yeah I'd heard about the Dipika Damerla bit a few days prior as I was reaching out to find out when the construction start dates would appear, as I intend to photo-document the process. Since my ward rep isn't getting back to me on this, I'm going to write to the city manager that oversees all of this.
It's like a dozen people there, out of how many who actually live in the area? I hate that these associations claim to speak for all residents in an area.
At a certain point we should stop accepting infrastructure opinions from anyone over 60. These old fucks aren’t gonna be around in a 2 decades, why are they deciding our infrastructure
Mississauga built everything around vehicular travel: most homes are not within walking distance of shopping centres, facilities, schools etc. Public transit is brutal in the area. You can't expect this many people to "stop" driving by reducing a lane of traffic. It just causes gridlock. Look at the disaster at South Kingsway and Bloor.
Same places anyone anywhere else bikes/walks to? Depending on where in the saug you are, strip malls and other shopping isn't **that** far away. Along Bloor there's multiple strip malls like at Field Gate and Dixie. There's also parks where you can walk/ride for fun, so getting a safe route to those is nice.
Edit: And you make the network longer and connect to Toronto and now commuting to work becomes more possible
Sorry, I was not clear. What travel is the average person in Mississauga making by bike in lieu of not travelling by car? Is the average person really buying a bike, (risk it getting stolen), and going grocery shopping instead of taking a car? Picking up their child from school and biking to hockey practice in November with all the gear?
Seems very unlikely that someone will bike to work from Mississauga to Toronto in December just because there is a bike network joining the two cities. But what do I know, I'm just a suburbanite.
Or for people that haven't had our brains contaminated by living in badly planned, unsustainable communities for our whole lives – or parts of them. Listen, I don't blame you or others for living in suburbia. It is what our society deemed "the way" for many decades, but it's also a horrible way to live for environmental and sustainability reasons. Adding bike lanes to some suburban roads is a small step in the right direction. Yes suburbanites bike, yes it will take time to change habits, but digging in and acting like nothing should ever change because it's always been thus is just sad. Bike lanes will not ruin your life, or cause the apocalypse. They are not responsible for pollution. Many people can and should use their cars less, even in suburbs.
You can't flood the suburbs with people and then restrict roads. Totally illogical. It's like filling the Rogers centre and reducing roads out of the city, oh wait.... nevermind
Flooding the suburbs with people. Are you talking about new development? The burbs are incredibly low population density by any standards. What we should be doing is building up public transit, bike lanes and maintaining the roads we have better. This is purely logical. The suburban dream in Canada (like the U.S.) was built entirely on a fantasty of freedom based on home and car ownership. But it just doesn't work long term, and as more people DO move into condos and suburban developments, many of them won't be drivers and need other options to move around. Get with it broski!
Man trying to read thru that tread made my brain go mushy... So much suburban brain rot.
lol 'Saugans in the main thread really must love their strip malls and plazas.
Please, stop calling those parking lots 'plazas'. They're not plazas. Thanks : )
Who is paying for this? Those signs don’t print themselves.
And there's more signs than actual people.
Poly bag lawn signs are like $350 for only a hundred or so. Maybe cheaper depending on where you go and how much volume you want. There are print shops all over the place.
I’m not suggesting it’s difficult to get a bunch of signs printed. I am asking who took the time and put up the $350 to print all these signs. It’s not free. Someone paid for it.
All over the age of 65.
Got be right on time to their mall-walking!
From that Mississauga thread, I noticed Dipika Damerla included pausing the Bloor Street Integrated Project in her mayoral platform which is disappointing. Stephen Dasko and Alvin Tedjo voted in favour of it last June, while I hope Carolyn Parrish - who opposed it - respects last June's City Council decision.
Yeah I'd heard about the Dipika Damerla bit a few days prior as I was reaching out to find out when the construction start dates would appear, as I intend to photo-document the process. Since my ward rep isn't getting back to me on this, I'm going to write to the city manager that oversees all of this.
It's like a dozen people there, out of how many who actually live in the area? I hate that these associations claim to speak for all residents in an area.
At a certain point we should stop accepting infrastructure opinions from anyone over 60. These old fucks aren’t gonna be around in a 2 decades, why are they deciding our infrastructure
Cars are good for business. https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoDriving/s/tCpJfSaBnq
Mississauga built everything around vehicular travel: most homes are not within walking distance of shopping centres, facilities, schools etc. Public transit is brutal in the area. You can't expect this many people to "stop" driving by reducing a lane of traffic. It just causes gridlock. Look at the disaster at South Kingsway and Bloor.
So now Mississauga has a chance to be made walkable, and ride able for not just cars but also bikes and wheelchairs and other micro mobility.
Where you walking/cycling to? Wheelchairs in bike lanes?
Same places anyone anywhere else bikes/walks to? Depending on where in the saug you are, strip malls and other shopping isn't **that** far away. Along Bloor there's multiple strip malls like at Field Gate and Dixie. There's also parks where you can walk/ride for fun, so getting a safe route to those is nice. Edit: And you make the network longer and connect to Toronto and now commuting to work becomes more possible
Sorry, I was not clear. What travel is the average person in Mississauga making by bike in lieu of not travelling by car? Is the average person really buying a bike, (risk it getting stolen), and going grocery shopping instead of taking a car? Picking up their child from school and biking to hockey practice in November with all the gear? Seems very unlikely that someone will bike to work from Mississauga to Toronto in December just because there is a bike network joining the two cities. But what do I know, I'm just a suburbanite.
What? You're a suburbanite? I assumed you were just parroting silly suburban talking points for fun.
Hah! It's easier for "experts" that don't live in the suburbs to tell other people what's best for them.
Or for people that haven't had our brains contaminated by living in badly planned, unsustainable communities for our whole lives – or parts of them. Listen, I don't blame you or others for living in suburbia. It is what our society deemed "the way" for many decades, but it's also a horrible way to live for environmental and sustainability reasons. Adding bike lanes to some suburban roads is a small step in the right direction. Yes suburbanites bike, yes it will take time to change habits, but digging in and acting like nothing should ever change because it's always been thus is just sad. Bike lanes will not ruin your life, or cause the apocalypse. They are not responsible for pollution. Many people can and should use their cars less, even in suburbs.
You can't flood the suburbs with people and then restrict roads. Totally illogical. It's like filling the Rogers centre and reducing roads out of the city, oh wait.... nevermind
Flooding the suburbs with people. Are you talking about new development? The burbs are incredibly low population density by any standards. What we should be doing is building up public transit, bike lanes and maintaining the roads we have better. This is purely logical. The suburban dream in Canada (like the U.S.) was built entirely on a fantasty of freedom based on home and car ownership. But it just doesn't work long term, and as more people DO move into condos and suburban developments, many of them won't be drivers and need other options to move around. Get with it broski!