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This video is for @fordnation, @PrabSarkaria and all others saying bike lanes "stop emerg. vehicles from getting to their destination". They *allow* emergency vehicles to get to their destination, as seen here on Adelaide. They were designed with emergency services in mind.
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Fantastic clip from @NotJustBikes on how prioritizing cars actually hurts Main Street businesses and communities.
It includes a nice quote from the local Board of Trade who thought prioritizing cars would help the town centre.
Guess what actually happened?
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Zelenskyy calling Putin a “fucking terrorist” on live TV is the energy I’m bringing into 2025 and 2026.
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Thousands of Ontario residents came together to send a message to @fordnation and @PrabSarkaria that bike lanes save lives, solve congestion and transport goods.
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Read that while I was among dozens of students stranded waiting for more GO busses as they're all full & there is no two-way all day GO trains yet--a decade old promise.
If Ford really cared about congestion he'd focus on funding transit operations & finishing rail projects. 1/7 – at Waterloo, Ontario
ALT First GO bus leaving people stranded because it's toonfull
ALT More students accumulating waiting for the GO bus
ALT Getting on the third bus, with another same number bus in front of us.
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Business owners love bike lanes!
They bring 1000s more customers past their shops than cars ever could.
High-spending customers, it turns out
So why is @FordNation ripping out the bike lanes that local businesses have come to love?
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Selfishly, this fucking sucks. ActiveTO Midtown was one of the first projects I worked on when I started at the city. The delay in travel time for autos was 37 seconds at its max and we heard from so many ppl in the community that it was a game changer for them.
BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford's @OntarioPCParty has begun the process of removing bike lanes on sections of Bloor, Yonge, and University. Complete coverage soon at thestar.com
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If this happens we have to resort tactical/guerilla urbanism.
Repaint the bike lanes ourselves. Install the bollards back ourselves. If the government won't protect vulnerable road users, we as a community have to. – at Toronto, Ontario
NEW: As first reported by Global News, the Ford government has begun the process of removing bike lanes from three Toronto streets: Yonge st., Bloor St., University Ave.
globalnews.ca/news/10825146/…
#onpoli
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R.I.P UN
If the @UN would have existed in 1944, the UN SG would have visited Auschwitz and shaken hands with Heinrich Himmler.
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Today is United Nations Day. The UN Secretary General is celebrating this holiday by visiting a murderer and a terrorist in Russia. It's all you need to know about the UN.
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Hello, @JakeSullivan46 In this family, after the Russian attack, only the father remained alive. How long will you protect Russia by banning the use of long-range missiles to strike military targets on the territory of Russia?
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«Даже самые грустные вещи перестают быть самыми грустными, если относиться к ним правильно». Туве Янссон.
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А мне потом рассказывают, что это не деструктивная секта. Да нет, ребят, когда маме похер на сына из-за некой ИДЕИ, добро пожаловать в Джонстаун.
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What if instead of counting cars we counted benches and trees? Instead of measuring traffic flows we measured social and economic activity?
With its annual summer transformation prompted by the pandemic, Montréal’s Mont-Royal Avenue changes the definition of a successful street.
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All your victories are temporary and exclusively tactical, my dear fellows from the West.
You buy some time and some lives from Putin, from Iranian ayatollahs, from people like Erdogan or even the pathetic Orban, in a hope that someone else will have to deal with the consequences, when you are not in office anymore.
Of course, it would not be nice to be the ones responsible for the official start of WWIII, in case things go south. Let’s wait a bit more, let’s tolerate a bit more. Let’s deny the inevitable till the very last moment.
The truth is that the confrontation between civilizations is already inevitable. If you like the “free world”: free of fundamentalist ideologies, open to peace, you must extend no freedom to the enemies of freedom. Freedom is not free.
Both Europe and the US are already full of sleeping agents; full of people brainwashed by the sorts of propaganda nobody is even monitoring properly, because it is in Russian or in Arabic. At the same time, those people who want to fight for freedom against the autocratic, fundamentalist regimes, cannot do so, because “it will escalate the conflict”.
You should WANT to escalate the conflict now, because later it will escalate itself on its own terms, and you will not like the result.
