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Looking at Trump’s victory, I couldn’t stop thinking about Doug Ford and bike lanes

by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

As the results rolled in on Tuesday night and it became clear that the United States was moving back toward Donald Trump, I thought about Doug Ford and bike lanes.

The Ontario premier has moved with great haste to implement a quasi-ban on the construction of new bike lanes in the province, and in the city of Toronto he has gone further, moving to tear out existing lanes on three busy downtown streets. No one can seriously believe that removing some bike lanes will make a noticeable difference on traffic. If anything, it will just invite more cars into an already-choked downtown. What will the Premier say when the gridlock doesn’t improve?

This guys gonna have a TDS seizure …

Majority support Doug Ford’s plan for bike lanes, poll suggests

Ontarians support Premier Doug Ford’s controversial bid to curb municipal bike lanes by a two-to-one margin, a new poll suggests.

Abacus Data also found 72 per cent of respondents back Ford’s $200 “tax rebate” cheques, although about half believe the $3 billion would be better spent on improving public services such as health care or education.

A majority — 55 per cent — approved of the premier’s proposal to force municipalities to get provincial approval for bike lanes that would interfere with vehicular traffic.

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