BiscottiGelato

If people find the roads more congested they will switch to biking or walking.  People like to find excuses such as saying that they don't have time.  Everybody has 24 hours a day.  Vancouver is so  ...
快樂牛郎 發表於 2009-8-17 09:42

So that's what we pay taxes for. So Translink will make the decision for us, for all cases and all individuals that walking and biking is a better transportation option, thus doing a favor by making our roads worse and more congested. Awesome return on our tax money!

BiscottiGelato

You will have plenty of time to sleep when the end of the world comes
快樂牛郎 發表於 2009-8-17 14:29

Fibbi, 快樂牛郎 thinks you sleeps too much and better off use your time walking/biking instead. He must know your daily schedule well, so he must be right... Just suck it up and start biking to work already...

BiscottiGelato

23# fibbi
Of course ~~ But failing to understand the importance of changing our collective transportation habit, and refusing to acknowledge other's effort in doing so,  is so so so short-sighted.
hamlet 發表於 2009-8-17 14:23

Forcing others to agree and adopt your transportation habit by reducing existing transportation infrastructure's quality, refusing to understand that other individual can have differeing needs, is so so so self-centered...

BiscottiGelato

I think the whole point of having democracy is to be self-centered.  I learned that from LYK.

ok maybe self-centered is not the right word

"fight for your belief"
i think that sounds better

and a ...
快樂牛郎 發表於 2009-8-17 16:54

Hmm... a democracy with low education level probably be filled with voters that votes using short sighted self-centric views. Maybe also some of those force your own views upon others as a bonus.

My naive believe thinks that the point of democracy is to find a consensus of what the majority think is 'right', not so much just what people think will benefit themselves...

Never mind all this, because Canada is just about who speaks the loudest. Idealists and extremist comes first, while majority and taxpayers comes last... Our version of democracy is about finding the lesser of a bunch of evils... or rather, the lesser of a bunch of idiots... ouch...

BiscottiGelato

Are you saying most voters are long term oriented and selfless? That's really a novelty to me.  Because to me democracy is to be as selfish as possible and by having different forces that cancel out ...
快樂牛郎 發表於 2009-8-17 22:12

Definately the opposite, most voters are short sighted and selfish. But that doesn't mean that that's the original intent of democracy. The problem is definately worst, and sometimes being abused by politician at places where people are less educated, and better at places with more education.