I was interested in finding out why Ford signed such a good contract with Canadian autoworkers. What I found wasn’t what I expected. But I do think it we can have something like a win-win if the country brings in Chinese EVs. Look at the numbers in my article and tell me what you think—.
https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/why-canada-needs-chinese-evs
Canada needs quality inexpensive vehicles for the masses. I don’t care where the hell they come from.
Electric golf carts should be legalized in most major cities like Toronto. It’s good enough for the city, to commute and get groceries.
For rural areas in Canada people need very fuel efficient transport. Encourage people to use motorcycles in good weather. Allow Kei trucks.
Also for rural kids: Sweden: agricultural vehicles allows kids 15 and older to drive cars without a proper driver’s licence, as long as the vehicle has been altered to have a maximum speed of 30 kilometres per hour. France: sans permis cars are not allowed to go faster than 45 km/h, but can be driven by anyone with a license.
Those are a lot of good, immediate solutions. I wish we weren’t so locked in with the big car manufacturers and unions and “business”.
Pointless when the highways around Toronto are parking lots.
It’d be pointless to have inexpensive cars available in a car-dependent country because one city has bad traffic?
Name one city in Canada without bad traffic.
My guy, you’re living in a country where most cities have fewer than 200k people living in them. Ffs, Charlottetown doesn’t have bad traffic, lol, takes about ten minutes to drive across the whole damn city. I think too many of you people think that the two cities you live are the entire country. Had another dicknuts on this post talking about how poor people are immoral for not owning cargo bikes because they’re feasible in his specific neighbourhood in Vancouver.
Yes, infrastructure must improve for this country to have any future where we can meet the needs of our people, that does not mean that every consideration should be made only with Toronto in mind; that doesn’t even happen in Toronto, as you’ve pointed out. Or did you forget why those highways are where they are?