Indem unsere Städte öffentliche Räume und Dienste scheitern lassen, brechen sie ein grundlegendes Versprechen an die Menschen, die dort leben
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-by-letting-public-spaces-and-services-fail-our-cities-are-breaking-a/
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Culturally, car brain has rotted away North America. People simply don’t understand what a sustainable city looks like and feel that because for a decade or two there wasn’t much traffic, that’s always how things should be. It really is an incredible phenomenon honestly. The way people get riled up at the notion of paying for parking is… concerning.
Too many municipal services are dependent on funding from provincial governments that are voted in by rural and suburban voters who couldn’t care less about uppity city folk while totally dependent on their economic output for subsidies of their “idyllic” lifestyle. The irony is that these are the very people who complain that liberals/city people “disrespect” them and don’t understand their way of life (or whatever the latest grievance might be – see Alberta post election).
It is frankly absurd that in Montreal for example not a single bridge into the city or freeway from the suburbs is tolled, while STM gradually collapses from a lack of funding.
This country’s metropolitan areas are full of suburbanites who are actively hostile to attempts at urbanization. In several places in the GTA home owners will literally have protests against Condos being built while a rent/housing crisis is going on. In other places people will vote against public transit infrastructure while actively needing work forces for retail.
Places like Mississauga try to urbanize and you get residents who literally will protest against building apartments. It’s ridiculous and selfish but this is what you get when you tie a very large chunk of the country’s entire wealth building and identity to home ownership. A lot of the systems and services in this country continue to crumble because of this.