Road design, transportation and walkability

[WLU]

Hahaha.......disagreeing with you on this one particular theory makes me "unaccepting of basic facts of the world" of the world? really?.  I also noticed right away you come up with "angry" drivers who want to deny these facts.  I watched a video of yours once and I must say you sure did come across as an "angry cyclist".

  You don't mention that suburban homes pay substantially higher taxes than those in the core.  Doing quick math, the 20 year old small court I live on in Kitchener collects over $130,000 annually for 24 homes.  I'm pretty sure we are paying our way.  We don't even have bus service in our subdivision so at a minimum we're subsidizing transit without even having the opportunity to use it.    

  Regardless and thankfully regional staff must also have some doubts or at least don't care about induced demand because they're clearly going ahead and widening Fisher-Hallman.

Yes, it does, because this "particular theory" is an accepted basic fact of the world. Really. This is why so many of us won't take the time, that and your dismissive disbelieving anti-science attitude.

And your response to tomh009's message is to make a half dozen replies, one in which you call me an "angry cyclist" (apparently objecting, calmly to drivers driving distracted on their fucking phones or being upset that drivers have run me off the road makes me an "angry cyclist"), then later reply to tomh009's post directly and plead innocence and claim you have "never insulted anyone personally". Right. I have absolutely nothing polite to say about that.

On taxes...I pay...EXACTLY the same tax rate as you. Your belief that I pay less taxes than you, I'm so sick of this delusion, literaly the ONLY factor in how much taxes one pays is the value of your property, and downtown properties are valued HIGHER than suburban properties, and they are far denser.  So no, this is another basic fact of the world you are in denial of.

You are right about one thing though, our regional engineering staff don't care about induced demand, they make bad, self defeating decisions about road expansion all the time. You're in good anti-science company there.

  Actually, I only made one reply to tomh099 ( #3605 ) not "a half-dozen" and it doesn't even mention your name.  If I have a reply to post, I'm able to direct it to the person who made the original post just as I'm doing now.
  The "angry cyclist" post was in reply to your post not tom's and it came as a result of you unnecessarily using the term "angry drivers" as if to claim that all drivers are.  Dan,  I've been on this site for years not days.  You've made many hateful, exaggerated posts with respect to drivers even using terms like murder and kill as if trying to state that there are intentional motives at an accident.  So before you label other people, it's a good idea to consider your own behaviour.

  On taxes, I never once stated that you pay less taxes than I do.  Read the post again (#3601 ).  I really don't care how much you pay.  I just gave you an example of what we pay and that we are not being subsidized because we clearly pay for what receive despite not even having access to transit.  I realize that taxes are based on property values, thanks for the lesson.

  Have a look at this link. https://www.realtor.ca/on/kitchener/real-estate-for-sale

  There are a couple of buildings downtown right in your own back yard on Benton St. and their units are $75k to $100k less than similar units of a building shown that is right off Homer Watson in Pioneer Park.  You are mistaken if you think that the average single family home downtown is valued higher than the same home outside the core.  Now if you want to talk about the nice large homes on Ahrens or Margaret near the library then yes they have a higher value but they certainly aren't the average home.  Just as the homes in Deer Ridge or Hidden Valley aren't the average homes in the suburbs.  You made a statement that "people like you" who live in the core subsidize those who live outside of it.  Well, I'm not sure how the 10,000 - 20,0000 people that live in the core can subsidize the 200,000 that live outside of it.  Apparently I have difficulty with "science" but you might want to work on your math.