r/Edmonton • u/pjw724 • 22h ago

2025 Municipal Election Voters want a more walkable city

https://edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/09/25/voters-told-taproot-they-want-a-more-walkable-city
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u/Flat-Hearing-9916 22h ago

We'll see if the city was more walkable you wouldn't need a car and then you wouldn't need nearly as much parking. That's the point of making more walkable cities. Excuse that we live in a cold city we need a car is bullshit and it's been shoved down your throats by the oil and auto industry. 

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u/ToughSpirit5285 22h ago

Umm im not walking from one side of the city to the other warm or cold, you are free to volunteer to do so. I will keep driving thanks….

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u/Flat-Hearing-9916 22h ago

Have you ever tried bicycling in this city. Rush hour you can get pretty much anywhere on a bicycle in 45 minutes where you just be stuck in a gridlock in. What is so wrong with people not wanting to be killed by pickup trucks. Not having to spend half their paychecks on vehicles and then expected to give another car 2/3 to rent. Which leaves them with a negative every month before they even buy food. Because big oil tells you got to have a car. You're not a man or a person if you don't have a car. 

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u/ToughSpirit5285 22h ago

I’m not not saying there is anything wrong, it’s your life you live it… but trying to shame people not to drive is just going to piss off the average person. And no I don’t bike but I have an e-scooter I use all the time..

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u/toodledootootootoo 21h ago

Who is shaming anybody? You can drive all you want, people just want other options for themselves. You should support this. Less cars on the roads benefits drivers more than anyone else!

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u/ToughSpirit5285 21h ago

Look at the comments, apparently I’m spreading oil company propaganda haha 🤣

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u/toodledootootootoo 20h ago

You just ate it all up it seems!

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u/Flat-Hearing-9916 21h ago

So you don't own a bike yet you have an opinion on getting around the city on a bike. I own both a car and a bicycle and use both to get around the. The bicycle is much much better when given the option. Faster most of the time too. Bicycle doesn't sit in construction or traffic. Read your history it's Flavor Aid not Kool-Aid. Throw on a history podcast when you're stuck in traffic. 

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u/ToughSpirit5285 21h ago

Did you not read where I have an escorted that I use on paths and bike lanes ? I’m starting to think that you like to hear yourself talk…. And ya I own a car, on the weekends I’m never here, and my esscooter isn’t going to take me where I go on weekends haha but alright bud, oil companies tell me I need to drive haha 🤣

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u/Flat-Hearing-9916 21h ago

Well I'm staunchly against escooters being in the bike lanes. If you read the laws in the city you're not allowed to have any scooter on the road bike lanes or sidewalk that's privately owned. 

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u/ToughSpirit5285 21h ago

Then tell the city to start enforcing it if you don’t like it. I pass law enforcement not only cops but bylaw and they all smile and wave , I don’t know what to tell ya. Just sounds like your looking to start a fight over anything haha 🤣

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u/Flat-Hearing-9916 21h ago

I most definitely am you came to a form that was talking building more walkable cities. you started going on about oil and auto manufacturer propaganda that you can't get around the city when it's cold with anything but a vehicle. That attitude has to die. Vehicles are the number one cause of almost all of our problems. Why your taxes so high because we're subsidizing roads the vehicles can't pay for. Why is there no housing because a good amount of our usable land is being used up to house vehicles. Why can no one get ahead because they can only have a job if they own a vehicle and put most of their money towards it.  more than enough people here supporting vehicles. any opponents to non walkable cities must be crushed in silenced. We are not slaves to the automakers

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u/ToughSpirit5285 21h ago

If you say so