“This isn’t a step backward. It’s a step toward doing things more inclusively”
What the hell is going on in canada? This is bizarre
Same as exactly everywhere else: conservatives have universally understood that they don’t have any solutions but don’t need them as culture-war brainrot and unfettered populism works much better anyway. So they now simultaneously fight every bit of progress ever made no matter if it’s in society, technology, infrastructure or whatever…
My country does not have a culture war over bike lanes, that sounds insane… But I get it in some sense its similar to other conservative tactics
Bikes do not contribute to congestion and most places actually experience less congestion when a bike lane is built (cause thats 1 less person that needs to be in a car). I’m so sick of the “we can’t build bike lanes, transit, sidewalks etc because it causes congestion” excuse.
It’s one thing to push for car dependency, and to push for oil profits. But what boils my blood is the people who dress it up as being about equity.
Has anyone read the actual text? This sounds quite reasonable without knowing the broader context.
Road budgets and projects go way over all the time and the vast majority of those projects still go through.
His excuses for what is causing congestion are statistically wrong, he blames the solutions to congestion as the causes.
The province has hinted at planing some other transit projects so lets cancel new projects that would work better in unison.
He explicitly states that new solutions cannot slow down private automobiles, despite them be unfairly catered to for decades while every other transportation method is left underfunded, unreliable, and is already much slower than private automobiles.
He then has the audacity to claim this will lead to amore inclusive solution when he is explicitly excluding cyclists from safe infrastructure.
Fair enough! It’s just the memo itself reads more like an inocuous “hey are we really doing things the best way possible?” I’ve seen my fair share of bycicle lanes done wrong (my home town has roughly 500 meters of it going from a busy car heavy roundabout in the middle of nowhere to some other place also in the middle of nowhere).
