cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22337621
An amendment, tabled and passed on Thursday, gives the government and contractors it taps to tear bike lanes out on Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue protection from lawsuits, including if someone is injured on those roads.
The last-minute amendment gives the government the ability to remove bike lanes from the entirety of Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue, not just the most controversial parts the government has talked about.
Sarkaria said it was possible the routes could be removed in their entirety — but a final decision had not yet been made.
“We’ll examine the entire stretch to see which parts — ultimately all of it could be removed,” he said on Thursday.
So many urgent problems in the province and the government instead wastes everyone’s time on bicycle lanes.
and money. isn’t it gonna cost like twice as much to remove the bike lanes than it did to put them in?
With Doug Ford, that’s kind of the point. He’s in deep with the companies that will be awarded the contracts.
It is so obvious this guy is a crook. Why has our legal system done nothing about the land scandal? Why is someone with such strong developer ties able to override a municipality and force construction work?
Well, I learned that the entire hullabaloo about bicycle lanes is actually to distract from their more substansive plans in the same bill to build Highway 413 regardless of whether it wrecks the local ecosystem.
Doug Ford invents time machine, sends Ontario backwards
Unfortunately people believe that bikes and trains are backwards and outdated. Cars are the future, especially EVs
The election set a record for the lowest voter turnout in an Ontario provincial election, as only 43.53% of the people who were eligible voted. This broke the previous record for low turnout of 48.2% in the 2011 election.
Nearly 60% of eligible people didn’t vote. This is what you get.
Victim blaming.
Can’t sue for injury or death.
Can gather 10,000 cyclists to use busiest main roads every single day.
Once again a step backwards for Ontario.
Turing traffic calmed, safe and inviting Streets that directly serve local residents, business, pedestrians and cyclists, into high volume, high speed Roads that will only add to serve suburban commuters.
This is a battle between local Toronto residents and suburban morning/evening commuters.
Yonge Street and Bloor Street are called Streets, not Yonge Road or Bloor Road.
Streets are “destinations”, Roads get you from point A to point B without regard for whats along the way.
Streets make a local community. Roads connect communities over long distances, and in this case will divide a established community in half.
Its called Street Parking, not Road Parking. Have you ever seen someone park on a high speed road (or strode) to run into a shop or backery?
If the plan would be turn Toronto Streets into Roads then I suppose Street parking would be completely removed with the addition of the second lane?
Yonge Street was designated as such in the 1790s. Bloor is equally old. If you’re expecting the modern traffic level and thoroughfare status to be reflected in a name given more than two centuries ago, I’d like to know exactly how your time machine works.
And anyway, as far as I’ve ever been able to tell, the difference between a street and a road is that a road was probably outside the municipal limits when named. Assuming that it didn’t just get designated “road” because someone on the urban planning committee was tired of “street”. There’s no generally respected hard-and-fast rule for anything except “crescent”, “highway”, and “freeway”.
I leave you with this video.
I hope they clog those arties and give toronto a heart attack until they are forced to put in a triple bypass (more bike lanes).
