Toronto Crack Down On Loud Motorcycles Analysis

years decisions for Bikes Bikes Bikes, which have resulted in both negative and positive impacts.

The civic issue that I’ve chosen for this assignment is the increased pollution in Canada.

There is a certain freedom that comes with riding down a long highway at eighty miles per hour on a Harley Davidson. That kind of freedom is something that only a minority of society chooses to indulge in, while another minority looks down upon them and chastises them for their decisions. “All bikers are bad news and the scum of society” they say as they sit in their easy chair reading shakespeare and sipping tea. Even to this day, there is a stigma held against the biker community that they are all just a bunch of trouble makers and beer drinkers that live outside the laws. Being a man who has been around the biker community since I was born, I’m here to share some knowledge and hopefully convince the skeptics that not all bikers are bad news.

It is never easy to do good for the society. It comes with many complications. Money, effort, oppositions. It is never easy and especially to do it in New york city, the centre of all economic opportunities, just makes it even more difficult. It all started in 2006, under the leadership of former mayor, Michael Bloomberg, when “the city planning department conducted a survey of city bicycle commuters and recreational cyclists in 2006”( Lyon 4) to see the feasibility of NYC city bike share program. The main intention or rather the main motive for introducing a bike share program was to “maximise efficiency of existing mass

He attempts to spread consciousness about our current situation, and compares what other governments are excelling at and what our government is failing at. In order to raise awareness within the public, Singapore government makes driver “buy a permit to buy a car” (Source B) This process of buy a license and buying a car costs “roughly $10,000” (Source B) which can be discouraging for drivers because of its expense. Moreover, if the driver is that committed to driving a gas consuming machine, the government makes sure that the drivers know their permit fee goes toward the “mass transit system”. With this “business driven perspective” from the government, citizens are both economically and mentally impacted. Governments use drivers money to teach the public a lesson of conservation, and raises their attention at the same time. Webber hopes that this will provide “the opportunity” for government officials to learn some ways of regulation. He voices that the US may learn from a more “advanced” ( Source B) country such as a singapore, but it will be a challenge. Thomas Friedman seems to agree, and adds that “It will revive America at home,reconnect America abroad” In unity with these voices, the government needs to take action, and it has to be

Stewart Elgie, a University of Ottawa law and economics professor and chair of the green economy think-tank Sustainable Prosperity suggests that British Columbia’s per-capita fuel usage had fallen more than 4 per cent compared with the rest of Canada and its economy (Ebner, McCarthy, 2011) Evidently it is reducing the amount of green house gasses emitted by fossil fuel use. However this is not the concern many had with the introduction of the tax, but the concerns were focused upon the externalities caused by this and the effects it would have on the economy. Three years since the carbon tax introduction and the Provincial level of GDP has remained approximately the same, (Greenery in Canada: We have a winner) With the provincial level of GDP remaining around the same, this suggests that at the very worst the carbon tax has had no negative effects to the provincial economy. Furthermore the tax also promised to remain carbon neutral and promised to cut corporate and private income tax. British Columbia has become the province with the lowest income tax regime and the lowest corporate tax regime (Greenery in Canada: We have a winner). Although the carbon tax is being praised by many, it still faces concerns as many still argue the ineffectiveness of the tax and what that means for the province.

Andrew Simms, a policy director and head of the Climate Change Program for the New Economics Foundation in England, presents his argument about the impact SUV’s have on our roadways, and the air we breathe. “Would You Buy a Car That Looked like This? “. The title alone gives great insight on what the article is going to be about, (vehicles). “They clog the streets and litter the pages of weekend colour *supplements. Sport utility vehicles or SUV’s have become badges of middle class aspiration” (Simms 542). Simms opening statement not only gives his opinion on how SUV’s are the new trend, but he also paints a picture of what we see every day driving down our roadways. Simms also compares the tobacco industry’s gap between image and reality

In this paper, I will be outlining the costs and benefits of social and technological fixes, and then I will be assessing the use of social and technological fixes of air pollution through the use of automobiles.

Attention Getter: We all need our cars to get us from point a to point b but with the price of gas being so high, many people ride the bus or train to save themselves from shelling out money at the pump. Spending money is an emotional process for most working class citizens, especially if it’s something that we need daily but alas we don’t have a choice. We will always have places to be in life, but if only gas were less expensive, commuting wouldn’t be as taxing on our wallets.

In May 2013, Major Bloomberg launched a new bicycle program to have an additional mode of transportation for the citizens and visitors of New York City. The Department of Transportation chose to have a Public Private Partnership with Alta Bicycle Share over a fully public operated system in order to have an effective and faster delivery of the project. In addition, Citibank paid $41 million and Master Card $6 million to be the title sponsors for the bike-share program. Although supporters of the bike-sharing program are hopeful Citi Bike will reduce congestion and boost public health by active transportation, in a big city like New York, only a selected part of the population will be enjoying the benefits. This paper aims at addressing how public-private partnerships effectively increase the level of production and efficiency, but negatively affect other important sectors of the economy.

These kind of negative consequences can lead to positive pro-environmental behavior in regards to raising gas prices, building alternate routes around town, keeping sidewalks clean for individuals to walk on, and putting in bike lanes. By raising gas prices individuals do not travel as much so less traffic congestion and pollution, adding alternate routes around the town can help break up the flow of traffic, and adding bicycle lanes, and keeping sidewalks clean will help encourage individuals who live in town to ride bicycles, and walk. Positive consequences of traffic is that it encourages motorist to re-time their road trip to when the traffic is not as congested, and also by reducing speeds can cause less road accidents.

Public attitudes and preferences toward electrically powered vehicles are considered to be developing rapidly in Canada. The vast majority of Canadians (almost nine in ten) of either heard or seen something about vehicles powered fully or in part by electricity, known to consumers as electric vehicles or hybrids Pollution Probe (2009). According to a study by Pollution Probe “awareness goes beyond provinces and into demographic subgroups” which suggests that the focus has been moved away from awareness rates per country, state or province but now into age, gender or economic class. In terms of gender 88 percent of men and 85 percent of women within Canada are familiar with electric vehicles. They own one, know someone with one, know the types of electric cars or have been thinking about purchasing an electric vehicle.

Transportation is the number one thing we consumers do that harms the environment. Transportation causes the highest amount of environmental damage overall - nearly half of the toxic air pollution and more than a quarter of the greenhouse gases traceable to household consumption. Over time, however, sales of trucks, vans and SUV's went from 16% market share to over 50%. One big auto manufacturer even shelved their work of the last three years, spent updating their most popular selling economy car, so they could spend the money getting SUVs to market faster.

There are many ways to analyze the performance of a company, some more popular than others. According to the Barney text the accounting method is the most popular way of measuring a firm's performance (Barney, 2002). Some of the reasons for the popularity could include the fact that accounting measures of performance are publicly available on many firms and they communicate a great deal of information about a firm's operations. Other methods of performance analysis include firm survival and the multiple stakeholder approach.

In the city, roads are narrow with no more than three lanes and filled with traffic lights and stop signs, because of that cars usually get held up by traffic and leads to congestion. This phenomenon usually leads to an effect commonly called “late to work”. With that in mind, motorcycle commuting saves time because they are allowed to filter traffic in a congested condition (different rules may apply for different countries). A testimony by a motorcycle magazine editor theoretically calculated he saved up to 24 hours each month just by commuting on motorcycles in San Francisco, one of the megalopolises in Northern California. @testimony san fran On the other part of the world, in Sydney AUS, a race type study was done by The Herald, local newspaper publisher. Purpose of the race was to find out which mode of transport is the fastest way from North Shore towards the Parliament House on Macquarie Street during peak hours. The race includes a car, bicycle, scooter, on foot and public transport (bus and train). The winner was scooter with only 25minutes and 12 minutes faster than a car. This shows that motorcycle saves almost 50 percent of the time spent in the car in traffic. @scooter wins australia