perfectly normal beast
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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.
This is so sad, and so stupid. I don't get how this many people in the US/Canada still support building for the car :(
ого, я читала где-то заявление министра образования Онтарио давно, я думала, это во всех школах Онтарио вернули! мы в waterloo
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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/…
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If there was a choice to use or not to use this invention, a lot more people would be ok with cars. But we're forced into using cars, deprived of safe streets, kids and non-driving elderly are robbed of the freedom.
