12-08-2021, 10:53 AM
(12-08-2021, 09:50 AM)cherrypark Wrote: I feel like you can certainly have a differing opinion on what the downtown grid should look like or what the funds should be used to build. For instance, the comments by some in there about how other configurations might be better are not specifically wrong but I think discount the political impossibility (regrettably) to take away ROW from busy roads. No one seems to realize this is the reason the routes are on minor roads that "aren't busy with bikes" or off in nowhere land like this IHT to Central Station link. Take issue with your fellow citizens first before you rail on city planners.
However that doesn't justify the clearly (a) selfish anger about a road you happen to use being one-way now and what was probably a relation or friend who duffed their car on a clearly demarcated barrier; and (b) lack of perspective that the fact that the city *finally* invested in some decent bike infra downtown is somehow a major failure (meanwhile the Region is putting on a masterclass in mediocre use of funds with MUTs in no mans land on Victoria).
I mean, what's the saying, don't let him live in your head rent free...I've never actually met anyone that was so much a caricature before...he literally claims to be an environmentally conscious progressive, whose solution to biking on Joseph was to mark one sidewalk for bikes only, and the other peds only. Like, this was his real suggestion. Because driving his Tesla around the block will cancel out all savings from people cycling.