When I see this kind of thing happening, I think about beverage and soft drink corporations who consider water as competition rather than a basic right that should be available to all human beings.
And yes, you can have streets where pedestrians walk and streetcars run with no private automobiles.
Here’s one such thing street in Amsterdam.
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BREAKING: #FIFA ’s last-minute flip flop to ban reusable water bottles will add to single-use garbage in Toronto, undermine local efforts from host cities to cut waste, and cost fans more money to buy disposable water bottles. See our statement below:
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For years, opponents to climate action and climate denialists argued that Canada represents a small fraction of the world’s population.
The fact that *ALL FIVE* of Canada’s big banks are within the top sixteen fossil fuel financiers in the world throws that argument out the window.
This space could have been used by four people to park their empty cars.
We need to do this in Ontario.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...