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Re: Carbon Tax --> public transit

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On Mar 21, 2024, Sharx335 wrote
(in article <uti8us$2eljf$1@dont-email.me>):

> On 2024-03-21 3:14 p.m., David Dalton wrote:
> > (Canada)
> >
> > Instead of the federal government giving back much of the Carbon
> > Tax in rebates, they should direct the money to improving public
> > transit nationally, including in rural areas.
> >
> > For example, in recent years there has been a loss of Greyhound
> > in Western Canada, and that contributes to the ongoing crisis
> > of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, since
> > many of them resort to hitchhiking.
> >
> > On a local (Newfoundland) basis, several years ago there was
> > a loss of Fleetline bus, which used to operate on the coastal
> > Conception Bay Highway between St. John's and Conception
> > Bay North, and which was a valuable service fo students
> > travelling home for the weekend and for seniors and others
> > going into the city for medical appointments or shopping.
> >
> > But of course there could also be an improvement in public
> > transit in urban (including small cities) and suburban areas.
> >
> > And indeed, the planned transition to electric cars
> > is not practical; instead (or as well) there must be a
> > rapid evolution of private cars to public transit, probably
> > including shared/communal cars in less dense areas.
> >
> > And I think the NDP and Green Party would support the
> > LIberals in such an initiative, maybe even to the extent of
> > forming a coalition before the next election.

> Hell will freeze over before *I* "evolve" to public transit. It's
> inconvenient, slow, not safe and takes a lot longer to get anywhere.
> Time for you eco-nuts to wake up and stop being so naive. The sky is NOT
> falling. Climates have always been changing. The best PRACTICAL way to
> deal with so-called apocalyptic climate change is to reduce population
> growth and to ADAPT, repeat ADAPT, and not to beggar the economies of
> western nations. ANd look carefully at the lifestyles of your
> hypocritical leaders, e.g. Trudeau, AL Gore, and the king of hypocrites,
> David Suzuki.

I don’t mean current public transit, but an improved system
made feasible partly by increased usage.

Eventually I was thinking along the lines of a hyperloop
system backbone, perhaps partly funded by Elon Musk.
However there may need to be other short-term options.

-- 
David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
“And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;
And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)

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Carbon Tax --> public transit David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2024-03-21 18:44 -0230
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