And here are new and updated ridership numbers for Bloor, University and Yonge bike lanes. Increases as high as 656%. - ThreadSky

graphicmatt.com • 104 days ago

And here are new and updated ridership numbers for Bloor, University and Yonge bike lanes. Increases as high as 656%.

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graphicmatt.com•104 days ago

In summary, Ford's bike lane removals will, according to a new City Hall report:

- Cost $75 million in direct costs and sunk costs.
- Make traffic much, much worse for at least nine months during construction to remove lanes
- Have minimal long-term impact on car travel times.

jillaroo2020.bsky.social•104 days ago

So a net negative - right on brand for a corrupt @fordnation🤬

contrails.bsky.social•102 days ago

Bikes have car rights. Maintain the lane, do not let them pass.

liminal67.bsky.social•103 days ago

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ebishi.bsky.social•104 days ago

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sir-tainley.bsky.social•104 days ago

If this is true, they've laid an egg they don't want to hatch, but picked a fight they can't be seen losing.

City hall should give them a way out.

I think a "We want to talk to you about what you're hearing, and come to a mutual solution... in camera" would be a good way forward...

graphicmatt.com•104 days ago

Meanwhile, back in the Council chamber, councillors have returned from closed session.

Councillor McKelvie moves for council to stay a bit beyond 6 p.m. to finish their PayIt item. That CARRIES via show of hands.

graphicmatt.com•104 days ago

A twist! Councillor Gord Perks says this motion by Councillor Pasternak about using lands at 1220 Wilson Ave as a park originally contained confidential info about another use for the site. He's asking speaker to rule on whether the motion is in order. https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2024.MM23.15

graphicmatt.com•104 days ago

Nunziata says she'll issue a ruling in writing later.
While we wait, Councillor Fletcher moves for a further Auditor General investigation into the PayIt deal, including looking deeper into cell phone and email data.

graphicmatt.com•104 days ago

Perks moves a motion with confidential instructions re: the PayIt deal.

He says members of the public who expressed "deep concerns" about the deal were "browbeaten by Mayor Tory's Executive Committee."

He says those concerns and questions have now proven to be
correct.

graphicmatt.com•104 days ago

Perks says this report makes it clear the PayIt deal was unfair.
"It was a massive failure in governance ... In a moment like this, when it's very clear there was a failure, we have to reassure the people of Toronto that we take this seriously."

kinkystuff3000.bsky.social•104 days ago

Sounds like much of Ford's plans. I'm so bitter that the province has so few voters actually casting a ballot. The bar to beat him is so unbelievably low if just 15% of the electorate cast a ballot against him rather than sitting out.

volodiscere.bsky.social•104 days ago

So removing the lanes is useless, but at least it’s also expensive.

gargoylemakes.bsky.social•104 days ago

And he’ll get to expropriate all the land needed for the 413!! His wedge issue distraction is being eaten hook, line, and sinker

savingdemocracy101.bsky.social•102 days ago

Good to see Chow standing up to this and pushing back hard.....oh wait, nvm.

kbyrd.bsky.social•104 days ago

I wonder how much he's doing it to remind his rural supporters how much he hates people who bike. Some people are kind of weird that way.

ee.bsky.social•104 days ago

You forgot a bullet:

- Kill a to be determined number of Toronto residents

tleafto.bsky.social•104 days ago

Burning through our tax dollars like a drunken sailor

iancollinsto.bsky.social•104 days ago

It's cool we're getting $200 back! 🙄

paulcolbourne.bsky.social•104 days ago

Imagine being so petulant about a city that didn’t want you to be its mayor and then attacking it non-stop instead of helping people in the province live better lives. This is the Conservative government in a nutshell

evodaily.bsky.social•104 days ago

Sounds about right to me.

boydreimer.bsky.social•102 days ago

He got in with only 40% of votes: Let's end unfair voting / electoral systems in Canada: join the grass roots supported potentially game-changing Charter Challenge For Fair Voting It presented its appeal Nov 5 https://makevotesequal.ca/blog/charter-challenge-for-fair-voting-presents-appeal/

mikeelg.bsky.social•103 days ago

How about instead of flushing $75 Million down the toilet, we invest it in TRANSIT and actually reduce congestion?
Wait, no. That's an idea backed by logic and evidence. Never gonna happen

ryguy2927.bsky.social•101 days ago

Another ford failure. Voter's apathy has failed ontario. Doug Ford has got to go.

topkatglassdragon.bsky.social•104 days ago

Curious which one of Fords buddies aka crime syndicate own a road construction company?

When they are tearing stuff down & spending big bucks for no good reason - it’s usually corruption

sir-tainley.bsky.social•104 days ago

So (1) Lots of them... bidding for government work is good money, and means you need to grease the wheels. (2) It's wrong to think of this as a "Ford's buddies" problem. He's unusually obvious about it, and probably allowed crimes to be committed, but all the political parties are set up this way.