Urbanism Goes Absolutely Nuts

Published 08/30/2023 · Updated 08/30/2023

Your agent defies anyone to understand this headline without reading the story and maybe that won’t be enough.

Rail Electrification: Caltrain adds BEMUs to its EMU Order

San Mateo Daily Journal

Well you know, you can’t have enough BEMUS on your EMU order. And how could you avoid reading such a tale of intrigue and adventure?

Put your seatbelt on for that one.

This is a part of the faux science of urban planning. In Ottawa, urban planning means destroying traditional neighbourhoods such as Westboro and the Glebe with high-rises because developers get bigger profits there than in Vanier (and river views), urban sprawl on the Tewin lands where clear-cutting is called farming, and intensification when it can be used to justify more money for the planning department, cover yourself in green propaganda and big profits for developers. Like intensifying Ottawa will solve the climate crisis.

A World-Class Developer City But Little Else: READER

Instead it will make ideologues feel better as they as suffocated by climate change.

Anyway what can I say? Get your BEMUs and EMUs together … or something.

To read this captivating whack of urbanism, click here.

Ken Gray

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