Comment by SECProto
4 days ago
> Massive trucks are useful for construction.
No, trucks are useful, but a massive modern pickup truck is much less useful in the urban context than a standard pickup truck from 30 years ago. The bed size has remained the same, the outside envelope of the vehicle has ballooned massively.
> You should get better transit so less people have cars.
Toronto has a very high (for north america) transit mode share
I'm not disagreeing smaller trucks are normally better, but massive trucks are useful unlike cars.
Toronto has good transit for North America, but there are plenty of ways to improve it.
I can run faster than the TTC streetcar
> I can run faster than the TTC streetcar
Yeah, so can I - doesn't mean much. The streetcar is not where TTC excels in ridership, the subway and buses are.
faster is one good way to improve. There is a long list of othersi