Proof we are sitting ducks and don't innovate

[Klause]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/canadian-hyperloop-company-says-governments-need-to-support-innovation-1.3992860 https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/canadian-hyperloop-company-says-governments-need-to-support-innovation-1.3992860



High speed GREEN Transport exceptionally suited to a country the size of Canada yet we don't support the tech.


How many more examples do we need of how dead we are in terms of R&d, infrastructure, and massive wealth creation projects.



Hyperloops are being built in India, the UAE, China, the US, Russia, Kazakhstan, and even Brazil.

[ajl]

These folks looking for tax dough or private sector investment?

[15444]

Sounds like they are looking for a taxpayer handout. Keep walking douchebags. What this country needs is a strategy to deal with baby-boomer generation in regards to long-term care, not high speed toys for kids. 400,000 Canadians have some form of dementia and it all goes downhill from there. Long-term care bed numbers and home support are woefully inadequate. And the younger generations are dying of cancer, suicide and diabetes, so it doesn't look good from a tax base view for governments.

[the big wheel]

Sounds like they are looking for a taxpayer handout. Keep walking douchebags. What this country needs is a strategy to deal with baby-boomer generation in regards to long-term care, not high speed toys for kids. 400,000 Canadians have some form of dementia and it all goes downhill from there. Long-term care bed numbers and home support are woefully inadequate. And the younger generations are dying of cancer, suicide and diabetes, so it doesn't look good from a tax base view for governments.

It's true we have to realistically deal with aging population. But how do you pay for it? We are a vastly spread out country so movement of people and goods we produce is critical to having more money to pay for all these new challenges.
Poor rail service puts us in the category of not being competitive compared to others that doesn't bode well for our future.

But our current political parties have two ideas on the one side it's let's give everyone everything which is good for votes until the bill comes in and the other side is let's just focus on shipping raw oil out screw everything else, workers and resources are needed for that to happen so developing other industries does not fit that model or the people making the money off this including bought off political parties.

[sumdumguy]

Sounds like they are looking for a taxpayer handout. Keep walking douchebags. What this country needs is a strategy to deal with baby-boomer generation in regards to long-term care, not high speed toys for kids. 400,000 Canadians have some form of dementia and it all goes downhill from there. Long-term care bed numbers and home support are woefully inadequate. And the younger generations are dying of cancer, suicide and diabetes, so it doesn't look good from a tax base view for governments.

Not one publicly-funded long-term care home built in Regina since the seventies, but we have billions to fritter away on monster overpasses, football stadium, carbon sequestration and a global transportation hub that never changed a thing. All the trains are still coming through Regina, the overpasses have almost no traffic, the stadium sits empty 350 days a year.......

[Foot-wedge]

Not one publicly-funded long-term care home built in Regina since the seventies, but we have billions to fritter away on monster overpasses, football stadium, carbon sequestration and a global transportation hub that never changed a thing. All the trains are still coming through Regina, the overpasses have almost no traffic, the stadium sits empty 350 days a year.......

the monster overpass needed to be built to save lives and divert trans canada traffic out of congested regina east end. they should have started to by-pass at balgonie, imo. speaking of balgonie, the round-about is nice, but too small for semis and farm equipment. trains through regina is a joke, especially with no over/underpass at ring road.
Stadium..., needed a roof so it would only sit empty for 340 days a year...

[sumdumguy]

Foot-wedge, the east end of Regina has never been more congested and driver safety saves lives - all the overpasses in the world won’t entirely stop accidents from happening.

[bucket]

The whole east end congestion is a result of piss poor city planning.....don't send me the bill....

the hub can't work because everything that comes there has gone thru the most populated cities of the continent....its idiotic.

The stadium was built because Brad Wall liked football...matter of fact he would take time to discuss it on the radio every week....but get him to discuss more important issues was a challenge...

there has been a shift change every 12 hours for 40 years at belle Plaine but it doesn't seem to need upgrading.

[Foot-wedge]

Foot-wedge, the east end of Regina has never been more congested and driver safety saves lives - all the overpasses in the world won’t entirely stop accidents from happening.

SDG, driver safety saves lives - agree 100%. ...but, the east regina congestion will go down once the part of the bypass that takes the trucks and transcanada traffic not wanting to go into regina south at the overpass and on their way to moose jaw is finally complete. this will reduce all that traffic from vic street east, which you are correct, has never been more congested. awful.
the lives saved are the ones like those that were unfortunately lost from the novice drivers in the pilot butte - balgonie corridor over the years. it was a death trap. I still don't understand the reluctance to put up traffic lights in white city, balgonie and pilot butte long before the bypass project was even started. there are plenty of traffic lights on hiway 1, a couple more at these key intersections wouldn't have been a big deal to anyone to save a few accidents / lives a year.
I reminder for us all to be extra safe on the hiways this long weekend...

[farmaholic]

Foot-wedge, even reducing the speeds in those zones would have helped. You know the deal, 100=110 Kms/hr. And that was too fast for those spots where people took chances to cross because of heavy traffic and picking a small break in traffic to cross the highway.

Regina... Quance Street, Boy would I like to get a hold of the "engineer" who designed that CLUSTER****. WTF&Y not straight streets in a grid pattern. But NO, curves with blind spots of buildings and trees... and trying to get onto the street from parking lots is a complete gongshow in some spots. I thought Engineers were supposed to be smart... they may be but not in the least "practical"!

[Foot-wedge]

Foot-wedge, even reducing the speeds in those zones would have helped. You know the deal, 100=110 Kms/hr. And that was too fast for those spots where people took chances to cross because of heavy traffic and picking a small break in traffic to cross the highway.

Regina... Quance Street, Boy would I like to get a hold of the "engineer" who designed that CLUSTER****. WTF&Y not straight streets in a grid pattern. But NO, curves with blind spots of buildings and trees... and trying to get onto the street from parking lots is a complete gongshow in some spots. I thought Engineers were supposed to be smart... they may be but not in the least "practical"!

might get better once costco has moved. gong show is right. there is no evidence of traffic engineering in Regina. ...or traffic light syncronizing... Regina tax payers should be disgusted for what they are getting for their tax dollars.

[sumdumguy]

might get better once costco has moved. gong show is right. there is no evidence of traffic engineering in Regina. ...or traffic light syncronizing... Regina tax payers should be disgusted for what they are getting for their tax dollars.

So true, exactly my thoughts too.

[farmaholic]

Clarification to my above post

If the speed limit was 110 in those spots(and I can't remember if it was), I can guarantee you some traffic would have been travelling 120...

They were dangerous intersections but some lights and reduced speeds probably would have done the trick. But those overpasses sure improved traffic flow.

Now they seem to be building some sort of approach between the east and west bound lanes of the #1 between Regina and the WhiteCity. They also seem to have somewhat limited(no) the access to the businesses on the south service road from the west bound lane of the #1. Have to access the south service road from the PilotButte overpass or from the east access into WhiteCity off the 48 highway. Better know how to get to where you want to be or you could end up doing some extra driving.

[Klause]

Wow.


Old folks homes and arguing about a highway project that every other city in the world would have been engineered with.


Is there no vision of what we want Canada to be 100 years from now?


I can guarantee over priced under engineered highway diversions, football arenas, and old folks homes won't get us there.

[the big wheel]

The answer klaus is NO there is no vision only short term fill my pockets with oil money and that's it. Everyone else go f yourself. That's the plan. That's it.

I m all for oil but as nuts as the environmentalists are the reality is it's not the long term future. The long term future needs to be found with r and d and tech.

We re so busy supplying raw cheap oil to the rest of the world allowing them to keep up with us or even pass us because they are investing in the future.