Desire to end car dependency

!thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world material right here

It is impossible to get around most of Toronto without bike lanes on arterials. The whole "no bike lanes on arterials" is a myth that Ford has been repeating constantly. Bike lanes do not cause traffic.

PhDs have literally run machine learning analysis on Toronto's streets and found Bloor bike lanes to be necessary in every scenario. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/10/241015183513.htm

Provinces worked together on this. Why is Doug Ford and Ontario getting credit every time?

He says he doesn't drink and that's a full bottle of crown royal. One of the bigger bottles too.

You can tell Doug is lying becsuse his lips are moving.

For starters, I'd like to know the plate number of the black ram when he tries to murder me for minding my own business in bike lane.

Trying to make car traffic worse so he can blame bike lanes harder and get public opinion behind him using the notwithstanding clause after he lost the charter challenge on bill 212?

You don't want to be on the opposite side of pissed off Montréalers. They riot like the French and would fiercely fight any attempts by the feds to force a pipeline on Québec. The entire Bloc Québécois would have their back too. Bad idea.

Liberals wouldn't get a seat in Quebec for years...

For all his talk about increasing economic productivity in terms of producing more goods, all I see is more resource extraction.

Carbon capture is a darling of the oil industry that allows them to keep doing business as usual. It requires an insane amount of often unclean electricity and is vapourware that does not work at scale. Oil companies love carbon capture, just like they love "natural gas" that lets them sell biproducts of fracking.

Nuclear is great but our climate does not have the 10 years it takes to build a reactor.

Where we're headed, we'll end up with more oil output, more emissions, more car-dependency, and a bunch of partially completed projects in 10 years.

This needs more focus on low carbon public transit and fast and achievable solar and wind.

It is abundantly clear that even if every automobile was replaced with an EV, we'd still bake our planet. Mining the ring of fire is a profit-seeking, extractive venture and not a climate solution.

We're all in this together; the whole world is feeling it right now. And the community, commonality, and solidarity between people from countries around the world is a great comfort for me, speaking as a Canadian. When shit gets worse, remember that mutual aid is at least as important as competition to human nature - take care of one another.

!canada@lemmy.ca moment.

The burning rage of 1000 suns (1 Canada goose equivalent) intensifies.