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I really enjoyed reading over the post about Jan's talk. A couple things I took away from the talk that I see as very relevant. One was the ability of cities much larger than Saskatoon to re educate their citizens about how they commute. I would hope if a New Yorker could learn to operate with changes to their urban environment a person from Saskatoon could as well.
The other idea I took away from Jan was how for a over a hundred years cars have been key in informing the built world. But many are redesigning the world around 'green' cars', which is still a car based culture. I fully realize that car culture will not just stop. But unless we are willing to engage the idea of commuting in our day to day lives we will not develope useable solutions! H.G well wrote "cycle tracks will be abound in utopia". Cycle tracks may seem like an inpractical pipe dream, but it represents a discussion that looks for a solution and just maintaing status quo