The following canroads poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Please excuse this OT poll... Which candidate would you most like to see...
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Nov 1, 2004 9:04 am
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... From: Simon J. Marwood [mailto:smarwood@...] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 5:19 PM To: canroads@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [canroads]...
... As Eric Idle said, "always look on the bright side of life." I guess I just have lowered expectations about traveling through the city than the average...
... Indeed; that is the whole point!! I only wish they would toll the other major Toronto highways (404, 401, 427, DVP, Gardiner), so they were usable again....
If GO was convenient to people schedule, cost effective or generally better than driving, then people would use it. Obviously there is a reason why people are...
-- If GO was convenient to people schedule, cost effective or generally better than driving, then people would use it. Obviously there is a reason why people...
Agree with you 100% Andrew. What happens if the person changes jobs. Does that mean they have to move? Or how about the scenario where perhaps the person works...
Don't forget the husband and wife working. Should they have to work at the same place? ... From: red wine [mailto:ozabald@...] Sent: Monday, November 01,...
This has been an interesting discussion. There was a recent letter to the editor in one of the local community rags regarding this topic. Basically, the writer...
I was thinking about this earlier today. Basically, I think, that Canadians whine and moan about the government stealing billions from their pockets, and then...
BTW, I hope the OP doesn't think that we are ripping on him. Just an awful lot of pent-up frustration with being told what to do all the time. ... From: red...
... to move? Or how about the scenario where perhaps the person works out of two different locations. Does that mean two different residences? If someone's job...
... Not at all, I love a good debate if it stays civil. It is interesting to see where different people are coming from; and if someone makes a real good...
... Whether social engineering of this type is good or bad I'll leave up to someone else. However, changing economic costs for the purpose of coercion is...
... have ... out ... residences? ... understand ... I ... hands ... By ... congestion ... actually ... People already pay for there longer commute. Remember...
... news. I thought it was well known, especially given how Quebec often stages freeways. Maybe I shouldn't have made it sound like a complete surprise -- my ...
... But given the excessive driving that is done, then gas must still be too cheap. And our gas IS quite cheap. Compare to England, where gas taxes are much...
... be ... That ... higher ... European Countries don't have the distances that we have to cover. Canada is quite frankly a lot bigger. Our country also isn't...
... I didn't speak about whether I was in favour of social engineering or not, I said I'd leave it up to someone else. However, I did refute the idea that...
... That is true, although it strays from the topic at hand -- commuting preferences and alternatives, and home-work spatial relationships. Now on the other...
Don't forget, just because Europe has high fuel prices, doesn't mean that there isn't congestion or people driving. All that happens is that people purchase...
Hiho, ... Or perhaps they're a contract worker, as an increasing number of people are, and they don't feel like uprooting their homes with every change of ...
... Agreed, and in that way I was lucky, and serendipity played a role. However, had I not been able to do that, then I would have had to have looked at other...
Hiho, ... In the email that you replied to, I suggested more than half a dozen reasons to explain this, all of which you snipped and made no reply to at all....
Plus you have to remember that the average American has a standard of living that is approximately 20-25% higher than the average Canadian. Hence, the American...
... Out of curiosity, how do you figure this? I've never seen such a claim before. Do you have a citation? Vikram Ravindran...
Vikram Ravindran
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Nov 2, 2004 5:05 pm
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Check the CIA fact book. It lists per capita income. I looked not that long ago and the average US per capita was around $37,000. Can was about $25,000....
I do not have a source in front of me. However, this figure is quite commonly quoted by Canadian economists when discussing the gap in the standard of living...
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