My mindfulness class was cancelled due to low attendance.
Irony, given that I'm sort of at the end of my tether these days due to my job, and Michael and I just had a huge argument about how it's my fault for living 10 miles away from my workplace and mistakenly expecting public transit to be able to get me there (this, after the City of North Vancouver just approved yet another massive fucking project on the Lonsdale corridor).
So what I have learned about city planning is this: we will build housing until traffic is ranked as the second worst in North America - and we won't shore up our public transit to ease this (instead we'll spend billions on massive bridges and road expansions so that people can move even further out and contribute more to the problem at hand) - but you can pay through the nose in taxes and housing prices for the privilege.
Really?
This is how we plan cities?
And apparently I "work in the middle of nowhere". That's interesting, because I work close to City Hall, a goddamn police station, and Deer Lake park which is a huge amenity where people like Florence and the Machine play, but yeah. Why have a transit route that takes less than an hour and three buses to get there? That'd be weird.
Whatever.
Fuck I could use a mindfulness class right about now.
How's the meditation coming?
ReplyDeleteIt's been seemingly waylaid.
ReplyDeleteIt shouldn't be a mistake to expect decent public transit in a city that keeps telling everyone who'll listen, "We're a world class city!". It's just unfortunate that expectations and reality never meet on this issue - and never will.
ReplyDeleteBesides, it seems most people live 10 miles or more away from work now anyway. I used to work with people coming into Vancouver from Mission. It was insane. And refusing jobs that are inconvenient by transit now can mean being out of work; something I am well acquainted with as all the tech writing contracts right now are in industrial parks in Richmond - parks that require a special company shuttle to fetch you from the bus stop!
Yeah. Our city doesn't work properly.
DeleteBut mostly I'm just pissed that the Onni develoment has gone through. Those guys are fuckers: http://www.nsnews.com/business/UPDATED+Safeway+development+dead+Onni/7653390/story.html.
For now I only work 2 blocks from home. At least you have some form of public transit. Our town will not allow the Dallas Area Rail Transit to come into our town. We even have train tracks already in place. The residents are afraid that public transportation will bring in 'those kinds of people.'
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