This article by CTV has an image of the vehicle, a Jeep Cherokee, with its various modifications including a bumper that appears to serve now as a reinforcement zone instead of a crumple zone.
Seventh fatality this year in Calgary. One a week. This may not have happened had the lanes not been twice the width of a car.
@JoshuaFalken @NomNom How do they post that picture but include nothing in the story about whether such a vehicle was legal to operate on a public street, never mind the ethics of exposing the public to something like that for one’s own personal vanity?
Calgary is doing a lot things right from an urban planning perspective, and near-by Edmonton is the gold-standard for progressive zoning laws among Canadian urbanists. But unfortunately Alberta is a very car-brained province, as are all provinces in the Canadian prairies.
I’m not sure why that is. It’s a very working class region so many people may need pickup trucks for work which probably has something to do with it. Plus the vast distances between population centres make train travel between most cities economically unfeasible and car ownership more attractive, so it might have something to do with the geography as well.
We will do this dance until we break down the manufactorums ourselves.
I’m impressed that they managed to write “was hit” in “a collision” instead of telling the story of how he actively collided with the car.
If we could also establish the fact that cars do not actually move on their own now, we were a small step closer to reality again.
