Roads, how slow is slow enough?

So I sent an letterleft) into the Era Banner on the 24, I had been driving home and the highway had no salt; no maintenance. When I got back to town the roads were well maintained and I could drive double the speed in town I could on the 6 lane highway. I see in a reply to my letter something thinks 20 kms per hour is a reasonable speed in a highway. Well with no salt and bad visibility that was the going rate on the 404 that day, is it reasonable? I don't think so. The person replying seems to have missed that I was crediting responsible driving, clearly they miss the point.

Murders go Free

It appears the crown will drop charges in the case against the Red Cross in their direct role in the death of at least 3,000, and counting, people here in Canada. As with Walkerton the government protects their own when government incompetence leads to death. If there was ever proof that government monopolies are the exact opposite of what they claim this is it. If this had been done by a company the people would have been held responsible for their murderously incompetent actions and that is why you rarely if ever hear of someone dying from the incompetence of a company when providing a service, but if your in the government monopoly you go free.
The worst danger to public health in Canada currently is in the health care monopoly and that remains popular with most people and who knows how many are dying early. Even those suffering under the systems excess have it so ingrained in them that it must be good that they cannot see the havoc it is causing even as it happens to them. Today I am contributing again to the CCF.

http://www.canadianconstitutionfoundation.ca/main/page.php?page_id=1

The Liberal War Machine?

Mr. Dion either is totally ignorant of the world, or just made a huge mistake and should admit he didn't think when he spoke. He probably is not the warmonger he sounded like, but then me being a person who judges based on what people say and their actions I will wait for him to fix this. His handlers today are claiming he made a mistake, whoops well not a mistake he didn't say what all those reporters heard him say ... well at least reporters don't know how to listen to what they heard ..... well you get the idea and this is not 'fixing it'. There is more than enough belligerency in this world without Dion advocating starting another war. The National Post was kind enough to print my thoughts on the matter today, unedited other than to fix a typo and i thought their editorial on the same subject was bang on.

December 30th I had been pointing out how silly the Era Banner is in claiming buses cut down on pollution, of course this is not a popular notion (sometimes the truth hurts a perfectly good idea so many people hold so dear) so it went unpublished; as the concept alwasy has in the past too.

Here is the text of my email, sent under the title "The Car is on It's Way Out?":

You quote Mr. Keil as saying the "the car, as a form of conveyance, just isn't feasible anymore" and "the car is on it's way out".
Perhaps he has been standing too close to those bus diesel fumes? New cars are limited by regulation to extremely low levels of pollution but of course buses remain largely exempt from emissions regulation. While the typical car now emits less than 1% of the pollution it did in the 1960s the buses are still chronic heavy polluters; typically even when accounting for the (utopian) 40:1 passenger ratio. Maybe by doubling the cost and going to hybrid buses they will start to catch up to cars, but given a ticket now pays for only a third of the cost in York Region would it not be logical to have less buses not more? Other than some routes in peak times many buses running in Newmarket have a passenger load that is more suitable to a (low pollution) propane powered taxi than one of these environmentally unfriendly dinosaurs.

Buses are inefficient of people's time as well as of scarce resources, they typically don't go where you want them too and by their route nature they never can. The bygone days Mr. Keil longs for where people work next to where they live are gone. Despite the best efforts of government to stop the introduction of cars they lost that battle years ago, and people will stay with their cars since that is the logical way for most people most of the time to travel.