“Why do the children always have screens in front of them? Back in my day”
Same person:
“You’re not taking my beautiful stroad away from me, hippie!”
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Plus parks hurt developers and raise property taxes.
Might be nice if we started preparing some old fashioned machinery from 1789.
Yes, but that’s a different group. The boomers and billionaires do form an overlapping Venn diagram but there’s a lot of boomers who are just plain ignorant.
Why are obesity rates so high??
Mississauga has observed the ban since 1979. It was amended in 2010 to also include the prohibition of sporting equipment, like hockey and basketball nets, on the roadway.
They rejected a removal of the ban. Carbrains have banned it 40 years ago.
Yeah, that is the wildest part to me. There's now adults with the ability to vote, who've had their childhood affected by this ban. And somehow, they still didn't throw it out with a huge majority.
Many of them may have never even experienced playing street hockey or a similar activity so they genuinely don't know what was taken away from them.
Don't you know our cities are for cars not people?
The pandemic was great for my city (San Francisco) in this regard---they shut/heavily discouraged a bunch of streets to through traffic for a number of "slow streets." Kids and adults alike run, bike, scooter, etc. in the middle of these streets. Obviously people love them, so they remained after the pandemic (at least, the one's I'm familiar with remain).
It's not a full-on car ban, but it's a start!
Article is from 2024.
Mississauga fucking sucks lol