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.
@RUBICON41@J__train13@Ad3pt117134 @harshahahaaha suburbs are bad for my mental health, and there's no middle ground between suburbia with 1 family homes and car dependence and super-high-rises, I want to have a choice! I want 3-4-5 storey buildings with things within walking distance!
@dronkoff@sanopamuuta@nicebadger ого, я читала где-то заявление министра образования Онтарио давно, я думала, это во всех школах Онтарио вернули! мы в waterloo
@sanopamuuta@nicebadger Ого! В Канаде тоже отменяли на несколько лет, но в 2022 вернули обратно, потому что исследования говорят о полезности этого навыка!
Прислала моя тётя из Дюссельдорфа
"Это шествие у нас в Дюссельдорфе вчера. Такое шествие проходит каждое воскресенье в 16 часов."
Спасибо, Дюссельдорф🙏🙏🙏
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?
Thousands of Ontario residents came together to send a message to @fordnation and @PrabSarkaria that bike lanes save lives, solve congestion and transport goods.
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
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.
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.
@Sch4denFreude22 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.