The federal government is calling for input from grocers, food and beverage producers, provincial governments and the general population.

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    My friend, I think towns and cities shouldn’t have personal motor vehicles at all.

    It’s a radical take that has no political legs, but if you replaced every car seat with a bus seat in a major city it would just be awesome. No traffic, and no wait times (including unnecessary stops) because that’s a lot of buses. Not to mention a fraction of the emissions.

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      A diesel bus runs 20-30 L/100km.

      A Toyota Prius runs 5 L/100km.

      Average car occupancy is 1.2 people.

      Break even for a single bus is like 5 Priuses. So a city that has 500,000 car commuters a day would be carbon neutral to swap them with 100,000 busses.

      That’s a lot of bus routes for a city of a million+ people.

      Or a town of 20,000 car commuters would be served with 4,000 bus routes. Not bad for a town under 100,000 people.