Walking, bikes and various forms of public/mass transit are all good, but are still not sufficient in a North American environment.

1. Weather sucks. From ankle deep snow that melts to slush and then freezes to be extremely uneven and slippery makes walking unpleasant to dangerous. As much as my city tries to keep up, there is only so much time and funds to clear snow.
2. Not everyone is fully able bodied. I’ll skip the obvious mobility impaired that people can identify by sight, but include those who look fully able, but for various reasons cannot. ie people with middle ear issues who cannot ride a bike due to lack of balance, or a medical issue where they can do a 30-40 minute walk, but takes them hours to recover.
3. Not everything CAN be within a 15-20 minute walk! There are lots on specialty and mom & pop stores that I go to that require longer range transport.
4. If you have kids, and they are involved in extracurricular activities, especially sports, you need a vehicle to get them to and from their destination.
5. Whatever city you live in is different than someone else’s. From city design, availability and safety of public transit, environment etc. Should every city aspire to be more friendly to those without a car, sure. But the reality is that most cities have spent the last 50 years being built around a car. Making changes to small pockets to be walk-able is a good start, but the reality is that it will be decades before any major overall change would be feasible. Until then we should also look to minimize the environmental impact of cars and EVs are a good start to that.

The site is now live with all the data for all members.

Years ago, the federal government had a cell phone contract that provided unlimited voice, text, Canada wide LD and 1Gb of data for ~$25/month with no extra fees (no startup, SIM, e911 etc) and with a monthly threshold when using more data which raised the rate JUST for that month in $5 increments capped at $50/month for unlimited data. I would guess their current plan is better

Let me clarify the ‘warehouse’ was in the local compound and was a glorified large shed. Staff went through everything every spring to confirm that all food stuffs were within date, and would be during the year. The blankets/sleeping bags were not chewed up by local mice, and that no equipment had gone missing since the previous year. Also anything mechanical was tested to ensure it would work.

Maybe things are different today, but my old and limited experience is that during a fire, there were warehouses with pre-prepared pallets for x number of people with basic foods and equipment. Sometimes management would run to the local small town store and clean them out to send some fresh food to the line, but realize it was still a small town store with extremely limited selection/stock.

Catering? in the middle of nowhere?

This sounds a lot like the Brexit commentary when it was being started.

• grandiose announcements of how much better it would be
• how the ‘rest of EU’ was milking them dry
• outright lies of what Britain was sending to the EU
• false promises of what they would get when they left
• and at the end muddle the conversations with tangential issues but make them sound like it is really really germane to the overall discussion

So many different ways to play Elite… from ‘space trucker’ to bounty hunter and everything in between. Best played as part of a group, though that is a bit grey. The group part can be that you ‘wing up’ with people, or just a social group to help you get through a steep learning curve. Join PTN (Pilots Trade Network) for a fantastic group of people who will support any who want to participate.

Don’t expect anything there for a while. Members cannot be sworn in until the election is certified, which is 14 days after voting day. Then members have 90 days to get everything in to the commissioner. With the massive change to what the members need to report, the first go is going to be painful for them to get it all in and right.