Bike lanes are cool an all but at least have the road large enough to accommodate them, and having an island or jersey barriers between cars and bikes really should been mandatory.
Bikes came first and will be last to go, so what matters is to keep cars out of bike lanes.
No one is stopping Ford from politicizing bike lanes and speed cameras.
Speed cameras are a colossal waste of money, so I’m fine with him doing away with them.
Dropping bike lanes is fucking stupid all around though
Speed cameras just photograph the license plate and you get mailed a fine for speeding. What’s wrong with that? BC has had them since the 90s.
To my knowledge, the money doesn’t go back into the municipality. On top of that, it vehicles tend to end up doing like 10km UNDER the limit. They also serve no purpose at 3am when there’s nobody out, but those cameras are still rolling.
We really need to stop putting so much focus on people speeding and start aggressively ticketing people that drive in the wrong lane, impede traffic, don’t use a blinker, rush left turns on red lights, and drive while distracted. These people are the real nightmares I’m forced to share a road with. The people that I tend to see speeding are generally predictable. The ones weaving through traffic wouldn’t exist if people didn’t camp in the inside lane.
This is all not to mention the number of speed limits that have gone DOWN over the last 5 years when people were already struggling to do the original limit, now they’re going even slower.
We should be dealing with real problems, not worrying about people doing 60 in a 50, or 100 in a 50 at 3am when there’s literally nobody out. Likewise, pedestrians should be doing better to be aware of their surroundings, not cutting out in traffic, and not crossing roads with headphones on and/or focused more on their phone than their surroundings.
It doesn’t seem to occur to people that adding a comprehensive bike lane, gets fewer people “in their car’s way”, since more people feel safe to switch to cycling and walking.
I feel more unsafe in bike lanes. Especially when they’re door lanes
yep, often the case
we need bike paths, separated
Idk, I think we just need to bar cars from roads.
Separate bike paths tend to be shittier, less direct, and less level
Drivers arent known for critical thinking skills. Too much time spend breathing exhaust inside their cages.
Carbrain should be added to the DSM.
What a ridiculous comment. A 5 yr old can ride a bike, how many can operate a car?
ever been to brampton? wouldn’t matter for them, they’ll mount the curb to run you down.
But how is it fair for my tax dollars to support lanes i don’t use? /s
I would much prefer my tax dollars be spent on TAKING DOWN ALREADY CONSTRUCTED BIKE LANES
/s for the love of god
The conservatives are a fiscally responsible choice!
Followed by: “I don’t want to pay any taxes levied directly upon me as a driver and I believe that everyone, including the cyclists and public transit users, should pay for the road despite the fact that I do nearly infinitely more damage to it and require far more expensive infrastructure.”
and “I want to speed in school zones and residential neighbourhoods, and everybody else should pay to make up the lost speeding ticket revenue of me doing dangerous things”
“I’m a good driver so it’s ok when I do it but also everyone else is dangerous and stupid but also cars are perfect.”
