How much of our public funds have DoFo and Co spent on court battles against us, I wonder? From cancelling windmill projects to tearing out bike lanes. The mind boggles…
Like the money spent defending his right to cut Toronto’s reps from 47 people to 25 in the middle of a municipal election. Or their right to violate the province’s Environmental Bill of Rights with that covid recovery bill. I know he publicly budgeted $30M of our money just to fight (and lose) against the carbon pricing program.
-Paid for by the government of Ontario (doo-dee-dee-doo)
What bothers me the most is the ads I hear on the radio reassuring me that the economy is doing great, ontario is growing, and building new roads and highways is the best investment we can make, paid for by the government of ontario.
If the economy was doing so great, I wouldn’t need an advertisement to tell me that. Decades of research has also shown that too many roads and highways may bankrupt a city and continue the car dependancy crisis. The icing on the cake is that the government wasting money on the advertisement as well. I just hear our tax dollars burning or lining Ford’s pockets everytime I hear the ad.
Testify. I listen to the radio a lot and it’s been high volume election campaign-level advertising for so. fucking. long. Every commercial makes me think of Doug and Rob’s news1010 radio show “Ford Nation” and that slimy “Ontario News Now” invention he used to get around journalists. Insta-rage every time.
My neighbour’s an educator, and she was telling me all through June - August '22 that government reps were fucking with her union, not showing up for negotiating, or showing up insultingly late, staying long enough to say No and then leaving. Meanwhile the ads in August were “We pay Educators lots of money and they’re very happy! We’re putting your kids back in classrooms and giving them an education!” Now we know they were just busy constructing bill 28 which took away the union’s right to strike.
His ads were always annoying and insulting. But that whole production woke me up.
Not Just Bikes just did a video about thay law: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KgFCQ7jEZxI
The reasoning is just entirely backwards. I don’t even bike and I know that adding bike lanes, even without someone using them reduces traffic collisions in cars alone. Not to mention it reduces congestion by reducing the number of lanes.
Not to mention it reduces congestion by reducing the number of lanes.
Every car brain I know bursts in flames when presented with this.
Notwithstanding clause incoming… Because it’s always justified if it’s the conservatives that do it.
Or the bloc
They’ve just been itching and almost threatening to use it.
What bothers me the most about Bill 212, Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act its solely “car brained”.
As a example the 401 on an average weekday serves about 500,000 commuters. While the subway system in Toronto on a average weekday servers close to three times that. Could you imaging if all these transits riders instead commutted by car?
Average travel times have increase along the 401 by 30-40 seconds, while on the Toronto subway average travel times have increase on average by 15min. (These are average times, we know a car commute can increase by about 5~10 minutes while a subway ride can increase by a hour)
By this metric why does this bill not look at increasing reliability of transite? Cough Cough Ellington LRT, Cough Cough Finch West LRT. This is ultimately what bill 212 is distracting us from.
Transit by these metrics is more efficient in moving larger amounts of people, but it’s failing in moving them quickly due to mismanagement and lack of public funding.
Viable alternatives to car dependency is exactly what helps in Reducing Gridlock, and Saving You Time.
But instead of focusing on viable alternatives, bike lanes are to blame, not the mismanagement of the new transits projects across Ontario and Canada.
When are they gonna fix the rail for the subway and save those people time? Oh you’re only worth govenment infrastructure if you’re burning oil, paying insurance premiums, and a big auto customer…
