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submitted 2 months ago by NarrativeBear@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21139835

The Ford government is promising to pay the cost of removing bike lanes from major city streets that fail to meet its unannounced criteria as it ploughs ahead with a plan to limit biking infrastructure and rip out some routes.

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[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Over here in Victoria, people have been complaining non stop since the start of putting in protected bike lanes. We have a really good connected network now, but at the start when the first lane went in, there was such an uproar about this useless short lane that went nowhere before the network had even been built. It was pretty amusing to watch the idiots speak out like that about the short lane.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

In our case the lanes were in for quite a few years. As I mentioned, we cycled through a couple of city councils before enough of the politicians that had spearheaded the initiative were gone and the new ones could do a study without feeling like their reputations were on the line.

And I should note, for those who are downvoting me, that I'm simply describing what happened. I ride my bike, I like bike lanes, but if bike lanes get put in bad places then popular support for bike lanes in general is harmed. If you like bike lanes too then you should be advocating for them to be placed where it's optimal for bike lanes to exist, not to place them in every possible location regardless of utility.

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