I’ve seen a lot of brick driveways and patios warp and heave from the winters in my area. The patios aren’t built to the standard of a road of course but asphalt driveways do seem to outlast the brick ones. The brick driveways have the same benefit as the road with increased permeability.

Is there some kind of drainage system under the bricks? If the ground is frozen, id assume meltwater will collect between and under the bricks.

A massive part of that is water instrusion under the road or into cracks of the surface itself. The frost also expands the underground material sometimes leading to humps on the road that develop to cracks that make the problems worse and worse.

I’d honestly argue the infrastructure is the bigger issue because of all the other shit it influences as well. The poor infrastructure is a massive factor in both pedestrian and occupant safety, it makes cities spread out and inefficient, which causes all the buildings to also be leff effecient (more walls exposed rather than shared with other buildings etc).

The scale and lack of established alternatives makes it very difficult for even a small city to make minor changes without extreme push back (speed cameras and bike lanes were made illegal on province wide scale in my area, making it hard for a city to make improvements to cycling and speeding).

This hasn’t even touched on the environmental factors, road noise, or maintaince budgets. The infrastructure is the biggest part of the problem, it has gone on long enough to let the SUV become so wide spread.

Minivan makes an excellent work van for certain industries. I see a lot of painters use them. Cheaper and more effecient than a truck or work van.

That doesn’t work everywhere. The netherlands doesn’t experience too many freeze/thaw cycles and their ground doesn’t freeze for half the year.

We can’t just update the roads for free. The cameras were a big part of the plan to make the roads safer.

I live in a northern area that has very short days in the winter and we have a ton of off grid solar and even large scale solar farms. When shifting to renewable energy you also have to consider the efficiency of your appliances and alternative options, like saving energy by using a clothes line whenever possible instead of using a dryer.

Also being opportunistic if possible. If your batteries are already at 100% by noon on a sunny day, it would be wise to do any energy intensive chores like laundry, central vacuuming, charging tool batteries etc while the batteries are full and charging.

You are right, but there were also several studies done that proved the speed cameras lowered speeda significantly, even after the camera had been relocated.

Lets not let perfect be the enemy of good. Those cameras reduced speeds and generated revenue for the city that was specifically dedicated to making streets safer, including bollards, lane narrowing and speed humps. The removal of the cameras both made the streets more dangerous, and cut funding for real safety improvements. All because speeders were getting caught speeding and considered that unfair.

How dare they put an authoritarian surveillance system (speed camera) near the school. This is an unfair tax on normal people. Its not about safety, it is about control. - most of my city until the province outlawed speed cameras entirely.

One of the most impactful thing you can do is vote locally for candidates that support transit and density.

It is also used to buy recreational drugs and life saving drugs (like HRT) on the internet in places where those things are difficult to get.

How will that cycle stay profitable if we build transit and people stop paying the premium for the lane? /s

And any resistance to those policies is met with more rage from the right, its a self propelling cycle.

Theres also the factor of suing steam is like getting to sue all the ofenders at once without actually putting in the work to sue each individual studio that used the music.

To be fair, thats more a bylaw officer problem than a cop problem, at least thats how it would work in my area.

Our regional rail is pretty shit conpared to nearly every other developed country. The last time we were a global leader in rail is when we completed the trans canada railway which built the country we know today.

Paying 4 city workers to watch the 1 guy qualified to put the concrete anchors in. The other 4 are the driver, navigator, pylon guy, and hinge greaser.

I think part of why the cameras don’t have such scrutiny is the city often has signs stating they use the cameras and will list their locations. This gives a somewhat implied consent from the driver, idk if it holds up in court but its similar to a sign at a store saying you’re on CCTV. The sign doesn’t say the CCTV could be used to track and monitor you but its implied.

The system required to make them hard wired would be immensely over complicated to allow the wheels to still turn. Where ever the wire exits would also have been additional point for leaks to occur.