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MindzEye said:
One example of high speed rail where this is the case.

Just one.

Even the UK, which is kind of famous for having expensive, shit train service has similar routes to Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal and a ticket can be had in the 150 CAD range (return, London to Manchester) if you don't mind early morning departures.
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Japan is pretty expensive, it's like 100-150 CAD each way between Tokyo and Osaka. But that route takes 2 hours, is about the same distance as Toronto-Montreal, and you can get it cheaper by booking ahead or getting a rail pass.

I mean, in Canada you know it's going to be expensive, because everything is. But Via runs a monopoly now and has crazy ticket prices for stupidly shitty service. Even a half-assed high speed would be incredible for that corridor.
 
UWHabs said:
Japan is pretty expensive, it's like 100-150 CAD each way between Tokyo and Osaka. But that route takes 2 hours, is about the same distance as Toronto-Montreal, and you can get it cheaper by booking ahead or getting a rail pass.

I mean, in Canada you know it's going to be expensive, because everything is. But Via runs a monopoly now and has crazy ticket prices for stupidly shitty service. Even a half-assed high speed would be incredible for that corridor.
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Even if we end up paying what the Japanese pay for theirs (part of what you're paying for in Japan is the frequency of trains, that we're just not going to match). Something in the 120 (240 return) range for a 2:30ish trip is about right. The cheapest you're finding that flight for these days is ~190 return. Those seat prices are pretty rare though, you're more often than not in at 300-350 return. The trip takes 90 minutes but then add the extra time air travel requires in getting their early to deal with security lines and it's break even on time. Driving is always going to be a cheaper trip cost especially if more than one person is doing the trip but that requires you to own a vehicle (500-1000+ a month), insurance, maintenance and repairs, etc. If your cost of vehicle ownership is less than 10K a year, you're either pretty fortunate or you're driving older vehicles that you basically walk away from when they have a significant mechanical issue pop up and you buy another old vehicle in cash to replace it. That's not the budget option.
 
LeafGm said:
I still don’t understand how it’s possible for anyone to get accurate polling in this day and age, when no one has a home phone and most people 45 and under would probably rather sever one of their limbs than answer a phone call from an unknown caller.
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No clue why Rogers even has phone calls anymore
 
LeafGm said:
I still don’t understand how it’s possible for anyone to get accurate polling in this day and age, when no one has a home phone and most people 45 and under would probably rather sever one of their limbs than answer a phone call from an unknown caller.
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I saw a call from Ekos research and cut off my dick
 
LeafGm said:
I still don’t understand how it’s possible for anyone to get accurate polling in this day and age, when no one has a home phone and most people 45 and under would probably rather sever one of their limbs than answer a phone call from an unknown caller.
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When you look at the methodologies a bunch of these pollsters use now, a lot of them have some variation of online surveys included which seems pretty wild to me. Whatever sampling bias you're trying to combat using cold calling, the type of people who click on online ads can't be any broader of a demographic group.

Online polling has a well known and obviously hilarious reputation for poor accuracy, and I don't see why hiding it behind one of the major online ad delivery algos would make it much better. For anyone who has never done online advertising, it's kind of a fucking nightmare to accurately target the audience you want to reach. Anyone on iOS is impossible to know the data of since a major iOS privacy update a few years ago. Approx 1 billion people worldwide use adblockers, which do a similar thing by blocking some, most or even all of the tracking cookies used to gather data on you (so that more accurate ads can be delivered). You're basically removing anyone who is web savvy from your data sets...imo I think you're going to end up reaching the same people who answer landline and unknown cellphone numbers.
 
MindzEye said:
When you look at the methodologies a bunch of these pollsters use now, a lot of them have some variation of online surveys included which seems pretty wild to me. Whatever sampling bias you're trying to combat using cold calling, the type of people who click on online ads can't be any broader of a demographic group.

Online polling has a well known and obviously hilarious reputation for poor accuracy, and I don't see why hiding it behind one of the major online ad delivery algos would make it much better. For anyone who has never done online advertising, it's kind of a fucking nightmare to accurately target the audience you want to reach. Anyone on iOS is impossible to know the data of since a major iOS privacy update a few years ago. Approx 1 billion people worldwide use adblockers, which do a similar thing by blocking some, most or even all of the tracking cookies used to gather data on you (so that more accurate ads can be delivered). You're basically removing anyone who is web savvy from your data sets...imo I think you're going to end up reaching the same people who answer landline and unknown cellphone numbers.
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Precisely.

My 2 octogenarian aunts have a landline (and old rotary phone with no caller ID) and in the time that they have been on the internet they have managed to get scammed once and had their computer locked for ransom once. Why? Because people with landlines and no caller ID are the same people who, when they get an email saying that their credit card may have been used fraudulently and that they need to click on this link to get important information on how to check, they click the friggin' link.

The people who will actually decide an election NEVER participate in polls of any kind. Polling is a bullshit industry based on bullshit data and used to promote bullshit narratives by whoever pays to have them conducted. Pollsters push the bullshit to justify their own existence. Very little of it is real and with all the different means of engagement these days, the data is only getting even less reliable.
 
John Diefenbaker, trailing Lester Pearson in 1957, was asked what he thought of the polls.
He replied, “I was always fond of dogs as they are the one animal that knows the proper treatment to give to poles.” Diefenbaker went on to win that election despite the polls showing him losing. He had a healthy disdain for polling. Sometimes polls reflect what the public has on their minds and sometimes polls get things wrong. But, at the end of the day, polling is a snap shot of the ideas and thoughts of the people polled. Nothing else!

www.bramptonguardian.com

Who needs a poll? Dogs!

John Diefenbaker, trailing Lester Pearson in 1957, was asked what he thought of the polls.
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This is the right call. Those lanes are disasters - underutilized, not leading to material increases in bike use and not leading to better safety.

And despite the stars cherry picked data, they are all clearly slowing traffic down significantly.

We should be investing in bike infrastructure through clear and connected bike pathways on streets that can accommodate it. Adelaide, Richmond and bayview are great examples of this. Better safety, increased use, etc.
 
My first reaction was why the fuck is the province getting involved in municipal bike lanes. And that probably stands.

But I don’t spend enough time downtown anymore to see how they’re working. So maybe mbow makes a good point.
 
WellPlayed said:
My first reaction was why the fuck is the province getting involved in municipal bike lanes. And that probably stands.

But I don’t spend enough time downtown anymore to see how they’re working. So maybe mbow makes a good point.
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On some days it takes an hour to take yonge between davisville and yorkville.
 
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