500 – Topics

00:03 Bus Racket Tactics (BRT): London Ontario’s Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT), routes still to be determined, current estimate $560 million – up from $380 million first proposal, growing opposition to BRT, Shift London’s poor consultation efforts, communication problem, consultation deceptions, city growth nowhere close to BRT corridor, terminal points at shopping malls, BRT as social engineering project to get people out of their cars, comparative facts about BRT vs LTC

14:00 Capa-city (when size matters): London as a universal example of the greater agenda, process ripe for lampooning, Rapid Transit population feasabilities, BRT doubles traffic congestion, cars to be banned on campus of Western University, cost efficiency of public transit, BRT a complex project with numerous unknowns, tax increases for BRT

30:10 Shift disturbers: Down Shift vs Shift Happens, Shift’s war against car, collective vs individual, business case based on 4% conversion rate of car-public transit conversion, urbanist philosophy of Transit Oriented Development (TOD), shift naturally, millenials shifting to cars, Western students content with current transit options, transit strikes, private transit options, epistemological error in supporting rapid transit, Orwellian language of the left, benefit to cost ratios, subjective methodology

45:30 Credibility gap: Auditor General’s report on rapid transit projects administered by Metrolinks, philosophical agenda of the planning department, the Planning Fallacy, optimism bias, frightening property tax increases, Andres Duany’s rethinking of urban sprawl, traffic calming measures, voting out current politicians and leadership, history of disastrous municipal planning

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