Further, many of the malls without rail transit links, like Square One and Sherway here in the GTA, are essentially bus transit hubs.

Maybe. Yorkdale’s number is so much higher than the others that other factors: like being marketed as an extremely high end mall, could be making a difference.

The next two on the list, Eaton Centre and the Pacific Centre, have barely any parking. And no free parking at all.

Here’s a list from 2023.

Of the top 12, only Square One, Laval, and Masonville have no connection to upper level transit.

Notably, the country’s most famous mall, West Edmonton, doesn’t even make the list while across town, Southgate (with a transit rail connection) does.

If you want to see the data for yourself, here’s a link. It will initially show you ten years of records: nearly 800,000 collisions in Toronto.

data.torontopolice.on.ca/datasets/bc4...

Maybe the news doesn’t report about the real toll of car-dominant infrastructure because they’re too reliant on advertising money from car companies?

It’s true that there’s no free lunch.

But that doesn’t mean we should eat whatever multinational fossil fuel corporations put on our plates.

We are stuck in a system where fossil fuel corporations want to keep selling us ink cartridges, and then use their ink cartridge money to hire lobbyists to politicians that society will collapse if people start using pens.

…and the energy equivalent of cartridge-free printers already exists.

About 40% of global shipping is just moving fossil fuels around.

This is patently absurd when we haven’t even come close to capturing all the solar and wind energy that just… shows up at every community each day.

Energy is one of the most abundant things in the universe. The only reason why it costs us so much money is because corporations wanted to sell us fuel. Instead of letting us just gather and storing it locally, they created an energy system where energy would stop if we didn’t buy fuel to power it.

Actually, what it means is that storing electricity to sell back to the grid when prices get higher becomes far more lucrative.

At this point, it's now primarily for export.

And even those markets are building solar like crazy.

We get about as much sunshine as the most populated parts of China, and we get more than they do in Germany. And both those countries have way more solar than we do here in Southern Ontario.

This is great! Thanks, Emilios!