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OUT ON A LIMB: City’s social engineering experiment continues

The newest lifestyle-changing policy from the city is the master transportation plan

One of the commentators on our website asked belligerently (I say belligerently because his icon is that of a horn-helmeted Viking. How else would such a person talk?), “Could someone at the Mirror please explain how on earth you equate idling of vehicles to lifestyle?”

Allow me.

The comment was attached to an editorial I wrote entitled “Another lifestyle changing policy.” In it, I wrote that the proposed (and tabled) anti-idling bylaw was “yet another of the city’s lifestyle-changing policies it has been implementing a lot lately (Dogwood lights, garbage reduction) and is bound to generate more grumbling.”

Since

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