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Yes cottaging is an activity that most Canadians participate in. One of the benefits of having the most lakes of anywhere in the world.
There's a difference between "I have a cottage that I visit 2 times a year" and "I live in the middle of nowhere and can't possibly survive without a car!!" that a disproportionate number of people claim.
Over 80% of Canadians live in urban areas, yet much more than 20% seem to think they live in such a rural environment that lowering car usage is impossible.
And then it depends on the context of the conversation. There are countless threads of naiive people arguing that we can get rid of all cars, and when they do, people bring up the edge cases.
Going to a cottage once a year still requires a car.
Okay, if you're going to keep arguing that, it's time for you to fucking cite some.
Go read the comments in any of the threads about the Waymo car being burned.
Citing something means "post a hyperlink to the specific comment you think is an example," not "vaguely send people off on a wild goose chase."
Going to a cottage once a year doesn't require you own a car for the whole year.
In fact, if you only truly need a car a handful of times per year, it's vastly cheaper and less hassle to just rent it
Precisely. And if someone can't be convinced not to spend thousands of their own money on a transportation method in order to cover less than 1% of their trips, I don't think they can be convinced at all.
21% of Canadians using a cottage annually means that every single Canadian must do every trip ever by car, obviously.
Not what I said, try arguing without putting words in people's mouths.
I mean, I wasn't even talking about cottaging, yet you insisted on bringing it into the conversation. You seem to want coverage for specific "edge cases" but I don't think you're open to any actual things that address those.
Solutions that cover a majority of use cases are better anyways. These edge cases are minor problems that aren't relevant to the majority of transportation needs.
I'm sorry, do you expect the government to build a train to every cottage? Ridiculous /s
When I first kagied "cottaging", I got anonymous gay sex. Then I figured it was a Canada thing and found, "taking vacations to remote cabins during the summer." Please let me know if I have the wrong definition.
Our transportation system and an individual's personal transport should not be designed around solely less than one percent of trips they take a year. This is why car rentals exist.
I've never claimed that, but the edge cases are important to consider when you're trying to get people to give up their personal cars.
You'll forgive my confusion since you replied to a comment describing a good reason to own a car that most people don't have with a comment about a bad reason to own a car that many people have.
I say it's bad because there are alternatives to every family having a car specifically for the rare weekend trips they take a year
Ohhh, they weren't talking about the sex in public toilets thing? That must be super embarassing when a Canadian visits the UK!
Sometimes it's both of those things.