Cars <---> Fascism

Resentment politics for conservatives who don't live in Toronto. They need to punish someone vulnerable.

This is me (US, not Canada, but same situation)

I'd cycle more if there were bike lanes but there's not more bike lanes and there are a lot of people driving who are oblivious, assholes, or both

Ah, men of the people

Despicable

That's the USA Way..let the dumb fuck ignorant church racists dictate the future.

Conservatism is cancer and needs to be dealt with as such. Don't let conservatives know about walking or they will take the sidewalks next.

Red states already have refused sidewalks in a substantial amount of their states. They don't wanna risk a minority walking in front of their house.

So they are saying they want to have bikes in all the lanes, everyday? Seems like traffic is going to get a lot worse in Toronto.

How unnecessarily dystopian.

How utterly pathetic.

Conservatism (regressivism) is antithetical to human progress.

elect criminal conservacucks and this is the result

and why is he still in power? clearly he's a fucking nonce and residents hate him.

Sounds like a suitable protest, everyone drives and parks their car. Now nobody moves.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war

Bulls on Parade

I haven't seen a smile that insincere since Mr Beast.

The liberal PM is more conservative than many conservatives, unfortunately... And I voted for him :/

OG antebellum red states objected against roads, believing they did too much to serve the poors.

Roads were socialism as were schools, libraries and hospitals.

It was always class war.

(Warning, my autism is at 11 today so I took it super literally. Save yourself the annoyance if it was rhetorical.)

To clarify, are you asking why Doug Ford is still in power?

He is Premier because his party won the 2025 election with a majority of seats in the provincial parliament, meaning (realistically) there will not be another election until he calls one or 4 years pass. The other path to him leaving is him stepping down/being forced out of the party leadership. That's entirely within the control of the party.

He called the election in 2025, already having a majority from the 2022 election to take advantage of Trump's influence. He said he was asking for a mandate to fight the trade war, and he got it.

Residents of Toronto hating him doesn't impact him being Premier. His party got 80 seats. This infograph I stole from Wikipedia explains where those seats are.

The province has absolute control over cities (as defined in the provinces laws) so what the cities think have no bearing on his actions.

Bicycles, it turns out, have always been leftist. Cheaper than cars or horses, they gave the commoners mobility they never had before.

They also supercharged feminism, allowing women to travel without male escorts, and justifying wearing pants, giving them a great push along the autonomy pipeline.

Rebecca Watson and Climate Town both recently released videos. I'm on mobile right now but will try to add links later.

ETA: On my PC now. On YouTube:
Why Trump Hates Bike Lanes by Rebecca Watson
America Hates Bikes by Climate Town and Not Just Bikes

That's just traffic with extra steps

you don't know how to copy/paste links on mobile?

Literally.

It's insanely ironic because amalgamation being forced on the city by the province is why his father's political career got cut short. Amalgamation of Toronto. Which is where he lives, and where he has been elected to represent an MPP of Etobicoke North.

Sure it was Etobicoke pre amalgamation, so maybe he's still treating it as not Toronto? But those bike lanes in the OP are in Etobicoke.

Here is an article from when he was in the running for party leadership:

Ford made this anti-elite announcement, ironically, in the basement of his mother’s sprawling house in Etobicoke, source of the Ford political dynasty which includes his late father (Doug Ford Senior, an MPP from 1995-1999), late brother (Rob Ford, city councilor and then Toronto mayor from 2010-2014), and nephew (Michael Ford, former trustee and currently a councilor in Rob Ford’s former ward of Etobicoke North). Doug himself served and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor in 2014 against John Tory.

In terms of political dynasties, read, elites, the Fords really don’t have much competition in the GTA, or even in Ontario. But that’s not how Ford will depict it. Despite their wealth and influence, the Fords have a family tradition of communing with the common man, and connecting with voters far less fortunate than they.

Yes. It's a protest. Nobody moves.

What?

It would be a shame if everyone swapped their bikes for cars and accidentally broke down in the middle of traffic where the construction trucks are trying to get to.

It's complex getting YouTube links from the mobile page (I don't use the app). And digging out the brackets from the phone keyboard is tedious.

So question. What stops the local government from, after they are removed, investing in building new ones?

The law they passed.

I talk about it at the end of this comment. The original law was to prevent new installs where they remove traffic lanes.

It was amended to add the removal of these.

Non-violent protests showing how useless they are once again 😂🤣

oh ya ! keep shouting at the pigs! I bet itll work THIS time 🤭😏

Im in toronto and the only thing that ahouting at a police officer has gotten me was alook of disgust. But he probably looked at me with disgust cause Im Black and as we all know Canadians are allergic to people who they deem to be TooDark©®™ 🤭😏

further proving that voting is mostly useless. Use actual resistance and see what happens....

What if they narrowed existing lanes, a daily took land from surrounding businesses blaming Ford? Or tolled the shit out of the road for non local commuters until a multi use path was built with the funds?

There is no rule or law a municipality has that isn't because the province okay'd it, and that the province can say 'nah' to. That means zoning, road construction, taxes, etc.

That's why people are taking direct action like this..

this is so unrealistic. nobody could be this evil.