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🚘️ Regina's road rage: The city's infrastructure is dominated by the automobile

Simon Enoch: The Monitor: 02Apr2024

"there is probably no city in North America where the automobile has won a more astounding and total victory than in Regina, Saskatchewan."
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"Maybe it has to do with the very curious notion of freedom that is tied to fossil fuel use in Western Canada."

"With train travel a distant memory and our inter-city public bus company sold for spare parts, there is literally no other way to get around the province than by car."
06:46 AM - Apr 14, 2024
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"Accidents, sprawl, congestion -- and, of course, rising carbon emissions -- are the price we all pay for prioritizing the automobile."
06:46 AM - Apr 14, 2024
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"Any curtailment of automobility, whether through increased gasoline or carbon taxes, reduced road space, protected lanes for transit, congestion pricing, or even “sharing the road” with others is viewed as a loss of freedom by drivers."
06:46 AM - Apr 14, 2024
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"... if public transportation options can deliver the reliability, comfort and convenience that are delivered daily in other countries, perhaps drivers will welcome their liberation from the automobile and all it entails." 🚲️ 🚶‍♀️🚅 🚍️
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