The myth of consent.
Townspeople: I consent to a bike lane!
City Council: I consent to a bike lane!
Doug Ford: I don't!
Is there someone you forgot to ask?
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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Why should an entire province get the final say in a project that realistically only impacts a couple neighborhoods at best?
Clearly municipalities can't be trusted to hold the provincial government's leaders' financial interests. More bike lanes means more people on bikes, meaning fewer cars being sold, meaning less money available for schmoozing from the auto industry. We can't have that, it's bad for the economy, or something.
None of Doug Ford's friends are heavily invested in bicycle manufacturers, I guess.
Bro. Just one more lane for cars, bro. I swear, I'll stop after that. I promise one more lane will fix it, then I'll stop.
Are cities creatures of the province in all of Canada or does it depend on the province/territory?
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Thanks. Also, fuck.
It might be okay. Let people read the rules passed down, as maybe there's legal loopholes in there that can be exploited. Maybe the municipality can still close roads or remove lanes. Once you're not putting a bike lane on street, the rules don't matter.
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My father thinks public transit clogs up streets, and we need more cars and lanes. My buses in my city started to do on demand on weekends... Which is more unreliable and instead of waiting for 30mins, now requires using a phone or app to call for a bus. But the bus driver can decide to cancel on your stop and not tell dispatch. It is like a glorified taci service. My city sucks for public transit.
Public transit clogs up streets
Looks around at what’s mostly the on roads
Looks at the lone bus that gets stuck in traffic with everyone else, carrying around half the people using that stretch of road
Sure…
On demand bus service with basically no reliability feels like they basically don’t exist? That’s just straight up sad. I’m sorry for your loss there.