Doesn’t it feel like there is just way to many fucking cars in this city?? I understand the convenience but can’t some people stop and consider that peak oil and the environment going to shit are not far off? Do you have to drive from North St. to Spring garden to see a movie?? Move your fucking legs! Ride a bike! Take a bus! Cars should be used only when absolutely necessary! —Not a lazy ass
This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2010.
The problem isn’t too many cars…the PROBLEM is TOO FEW PARKING SPOTS !
Ok More, just open up THAT can of worms, why don’tcha!
Did you ever consider not all of us have access to public transit? I live 30 kms. out of town, too old to ride that distance via biking or walking – perhaps I should capture and train a few dozen raccoons to haul me to Halifax via an empty Keith’s box and a couple of bungee cords.
It’s winter, no one wants to ride a bike or take a bus unless they absolutely have to.
People do not spend money buying automobiles just so they can leave their automobiles at home when they travel within the city…. except for some people who would rather not pay parking everyday when they go to work. And yeah- like snoop said, who wants to walk or wait on the sidewalk for busses in the cold weather if they have a potentially pre-heated vehicle to travel in???
Go pound sand.
What jonnoman said. The only time I’m going to take the bus is when I’m commuting to and from work. I’m definitely driving everywhere else. It’s quicker and more convenient.
I’m with you guys. Fuck the loser cruiser!
well o.p., kelly is looking for suggestions to ease traffic in the core area. nows your chance to show us your shit. get your ass to city hall, and become the new traffic planner.
I agree with this bitch! I have the option of driving, walking, cycling and bussing. Mostly, I choose the non-carbon fuel method to get around metro. Able-bodied people have a lot of choices.
I’m with TTFN. Only she put a great picture in my head…thanks for that!
I was going to say there are too many cars, buses, people, pigeons, smokers, historic buildings, cyclists, fat people, hmnmm did I miss anything?
sounds like any other burg to me seb, oh except the poopy harbour
I live even futher out than TTFN…but on a bright note, I only go to Halifax (Penninsula) when work calls, which has been 1 time so far this month.
Now that the crossing is opened I don’t even go in as far as Bayers lake very often.
I’m also almost the exact same travel time from here to Truro, which has a lot less traffic than Halifax !
It takes 1/2 hour for me to get to work in the morning traffic by my car. It takes 1 1/2 hour on a bus which is extremely uncomfortable in many ways. I’d rather “sleep in” until 6 am.
yeah seb., you did, what about the polititions, lawyers, dope dealers, and oh yes, coffee shops.
Isn’t that crazy, newt? I really wish the buses were more efficient. I’d use them waaaay more. As it is, I walk to work 25 min, which is no biggie, but I would love if I had the option of a bus for crazy weather.
Even if we had transit in Little Arse Corner, I’d be riding on the fucking roof after all the bus bitches I’ve digested over the years.
“Oh No! – The dreaded Mexican bus”. Another Freak Bros. fave.
Some people don’t feel like waiting an hour for a bus to take them on a half an hour trip when they can just hope in their car and get some place in 7 minutes! For the record I like to walk everywhere and prefer that to the bus or a car.
Yes it is crazy ralmn…especially considering the busses are notoriously unreliable…I hear too many stories about “the bus didn’t come” “the bus was so late the next one came” “the bus didn’t follow the route” “the bus didn’t stop at the bus stop” etc etc….
Thanx for that, Ivan, I thumbed it up in my recently purchased Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus – fuck, that stuff’s still damn funny after 40 years.
Gilbert Shelton is Ma Cartoony Gawd.
Good thing my wife works at Dal. We park at Dal spots and walk around town (on weekends).
Fuck you OB, I pay for my car, gas, etc. If I want to use it to go a block or across the country, that’s my business not anyone elses. And fuck off with the running out of oil shit. They’ve been saying that for more than forty years and more oilfields are being found all the time. Hundreds of millions of years make for a lot of dinosaur fuel.
It’s kinda a long walk from Windsor to Barrington and Young… especially with a puppy dog… may I please use my car?
(and I don’t mean Windsor Street)
haha you said peak oil. Keep worrying champ.
snoop – winter? So there’s a bit of rain, big deal. Try going to a province with a real winter.
The traffic here isn’t that bad. It’s the drivers and the roads that are terrible.
we’s be smokin them dino fools….
Two bitches that have been around forfuckingever. Smoking and our carbon based economy.
http://bitsandpieces.us/2010/09/19/the-rea…
nice ivan, and i know where to find you rosie^^
you too poor to afford a car or sumthink? eff off
I don’t think barrington intersects with young…
well it’s a T junction…
by that shine auto place…
So it does. For some reason I thought young was only the part of street west of robie and that east of that it was called kaye st. *shrug*
I loves me some Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers!
“Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.”—Freewheelin’ Franklin
True dat!
I want one of those motorized ride on coolers — the one that guy in Cape Breton got ticketed for because he didn’t have the proper registration.
The cruzin’ cooler!
http://www.cruzincooler.com/
Too cute PK.
http://www.freaknet.org.uk/graphics01/g04/…
Awesome stuff, sis! Heeheehee!
I agree with OB
The new areas of the city (Bayers Lake, Dart Crossing, Burnside, etc) are the most soul-sucking car-oriented hellholes I have ever been to. I would rather not spend my life shuttling myself from garage door to parking garage, slowly getting fatter and more out of touch with reality.
I have been to Tokyo, biggest city in the world, and it even feels loads more human than Halifax. Everyone takes the trains and walks about. Same even with Toronto in that regard (well, just downtown Toronto).
You might say, “well we don’t have a trains, and the buses suck here” — but nobody fucking speaks up about the abhorrent developments like Dartmouth Crossing that make a good bus system impossible due to such shitty decentralized design.
If you folks wanna live in a big parking lot go ahead, but don’t cry when tourism drops, the young folks don’t stay, everyone gets fat, and traffic jams become the norm.
Oh, and don’t get me started on the knuckleheaded public and our spineless council that had the Herring Cove Rd bike lakes quashed earlier this year
Hardly anbody drives in Tokyo because, like New York, there are so many people crammed in there that transit is more efficient than driving. Our population density is nowhere near that of larger cities.
But it should be orgasm dude. They really need to start putting policies in place that increase density in this city.
“Herring Cove Rd bike lakes”? I would have supported those. Get rid of those pesky bikes by dumping them in lakes near Herring Cove. 🙂
I walk to work or ride my motorcycle in the summer.. fuck if I do in the winter.. I’m driving in bad weather and I live a 15 min walk to work!
Some days an umbrella just doesn’t cut it! I feel bad for all the people who have to walk or bus it on bad day.. I really do.. I feel like pulling over on a bus stop and cramming as many people as I can in the car and taking them to where they want to go. They deserve a break. With our crappy transit. Some stand out in the -20 for a half hour sometimes. That’s just brutal.
I’m very thankful and lucky not to have to do it.
Bro Gus.. that’s just funny as fuck :p
“If people had better access to – or more incentive for using – public trans, there would be less congestion, less carbon emissions in the city, less money (read: our taxes) needed to repair roads etc, as well as far fewer drunk drivers on the road – which may be the most important thing: http://www.youtube.com/user/NSLCUseCommonS…
We got your back OB, cyclists straight up!