General Road and Highway Discussion

[panamaniac]

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-leaders...-1.7074559


It seems that Ford wants to be able to remove existing bike lanes, too.

Oooof! There is literally no amount of money he will not spend to burn down the province.

It boggles my mind that people will still vote for him...on the other hand, people are still voting for Trump so I shouldn't be so surprised.

I will say though, the response of most of the advocacy groups here is...so out of touch.

The people who vote for DoFo do not give a flying fuck about equality or access or anything. If you want to convince DoFo voters this is a bad policy talk about red tape, talk about government waste, talk about smart policies, they'll eat it up. They do not care about equity. There are people in this province who would literally pave the roads with brown people if they could...but if they hear that the government is going to create new bureaucracy and spend money ripping up perfectly good roads....they'll throw a tantrum about that. Progressives have GOT to be more politically savvy.

So, it's reported today that they're planning to send all 16million of us a "rebate" cheque for $200 (totally unrelated to any thoughts of an early election).  Who wouldn't support that kind of forward-looking government action ....