I actually prefer to vote in local elections. The people and the power are closer to you. Your town/city provides you public transit, water and waste management (and snow removal here). They can install new bike paths and create new parks easily. They can pass environmental laws like banning fire places, or certain chemicals.
Maybe it’s just because I want my city to become more livable and a better place, a 15 minutes city, but to me this shit is much more exciting than elections on higher levels of government, where they fake interest in public transit and active travels. The provincial government here renamed the “Ministry of Transports” to the “Ministry of Transports and Sustainable Mobility” but the only sustainable thing they have is for cars.
Whatever I vote on the provincial, or federal level, nothing seems to change much. But at the municipal level, oh boy, can I see the difference!
LOL I work in transportation planning in northern Canada at the territorial level and it’s crazy trying to get big changes surrounding sustainable transport to happen. Hell, any kind of transportation change up north is tough. Up here, it falls on the municipality to start, work on and complete transit and active transportation projects, we mostly just come in to assess, catalogue and maintain as territorial gov. Public transit isn’t even a consideration for us outside the “big” city, besides where buses travel on the highway network, which is ~40kms on a network of nearly 5000kms.
If you want to make a difference in your homes transportation network, VOTE IN YOUR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, because if its anything like my experience, your provincial/territorial/state government probably won’t bother much with it until it’s already been done.
I actually prefer to vote in local elections. The people and the power are closer to you. Your town/city provides you public transit, water and waste management (and snow removal here). They can install new bike paths and create new parks easily. They can pass environmental laws like banning fire places, or certain chemicals.
Maybe it’s just because I want my city to become more livable and a better place, a 15 minutes city, but to me this shit is much more exciting than elections on higher levels of government, where they fake interest in public transit and active travels. The provincial government here renamed the “Ministry of Transports” to the “Ministry of Transports and Sustainable Mobility” but the only sustainable thing they have is for cars.
Whatever I vote on the provincial, or federal level, nothing seems to change much. But at the municipal level, oh boy, can I see the difference!
LOL I work in transportation planning in northern Canada at the territorial level and it’s crazy trying to get big changes surrounding sustainable transport to happen. Hell, any kind of transportation change up north is tough. Up here, it falls on the municipality to start, work on and complete transit and active transportation projects, we mostly just come in to assess, catalogue and maintain as territorial gov. Public transit isn’t even a consideration for us outside the “big” city, besides where buses travel on the highway network, which is ~40kms on a network of nearly 5000kms.
If you want to make a difference in your homes transportation network, VOTE IN YOUR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, because if its anything like my experience, your provincial/territorial/state government probably won’t bother much with it until it’s already been done.