Context
Alberta is a conservative Canadian province that is rich because they extract a lot of oil. The Alberta Government opposes all measures that could reduce oil-production or oil consumption.
For instance, when the Canadian Federal Government tried to take measures to reduce plastics pollution, the Alberta Government publically protested.
Calgary is the largest city in Alberta. The city has a traffic violence problem. Data shows it has the worse road deaths and injuries rate of any major Canadian city.
Jyoti Gondek, the Mayor of Calgary, recently suggested building more safe bike lanes to reduce car dependency. A few days later, her office received this warning letter
Bike lanes doesn’t “decrease vehicle capacity”, quite the opposite. Maybe someone should explain what the word “vehicle” means to this dumb cunt.
Pennywise pound foolish
Based on this I can only imagine they must have full throated support of the green line which would reduce intra-city traffic to allow for greater available capacity for provincial traffic.
Shameful. Must have been a nice bribe!
This is not mildly infuriating but an example of extreme stupidity or, more likely, the result of corruption.
This is definitely to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.
It’s almost like being a conservative makes you a shitty and evil person and you fuck up wherever you are at.
Ather way around.
Tomatoe, tomato.
The Paris evidence is right there for anyone to look at. Everything works, people get to where they need to be on time, AND the air toxicity has plummeted year on year. Excess and avaoidable deaths reduced.
Dear Mx Dreeshen,
In regards to your last letter, I believe I wholeheartedly understand your concerns.
Your letter helped open my eyes to the error in our plans for the city and thus we shall no longer proceed to install our planned dedicated bicycle lanes.
You are correct that we must deal with the increasing demand for access to our great city.
Therefore we shall be announcing vast improvements to our road structure in the form of increased public transport services, dedicated bus-only routes, additional pedestrianised streets in major shopping areas, and even a couple of tram routes, on top of the bicycle lanes laid out in our original plan - all thanks to your wonderful letter!
Get wrecked you spineless automotive shill.
With love,
Jyoti Gondek
If only
Politicians sponsored by the fossil lobby are the norm, even outside pressure from USA (via ambassadors, state visits, bilateral agreements and extortions, or again lobbyists) is normal.
It’s present all over Europe as well tho it’s (gotten?) weaker.
Can we stop putting actually infuriating political BS in the lighthearted c/mildlyinfuriating?
They won’t stop, lemmy now is 80% politics. Yet they complaining about dead niche communities.
Isn’t the world 80% politics these days?
So what? Should we bring politics to everything?
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Life is politics, people enjoy trying to make this clean divisible line between “talking politics” and everything else but that line is non-existent.
Politics touches everything we do and interact with. Literally name anything and there will be some sort of rules and laws around it that impact whatever the topic of discussion is.
I hope he crumpled it up, then reconsidered, uncrumpled, took the photo, and then presumably recrumpled it before throwing it away.
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She built a paper plane out of it.
It almost looks like someone started to make a paper airplane out of it.
Dishonorable Devin Dreeshen.
As if increasing bicycle throughput isn’t increasing vehicle throughput. They’re vehicles, and can probably achieve a higher passenger density than individual cars can on a city street.
No ,no, the letter specifically singles out motor vehicles. Burning gas is the point. This letter has nothing to do with transporting people.
Let’s read this study about how adding more lanes and roads just makes more congestion, not less and how car alternatives are needed for the future of transportation to arrive. Like, oh I don’t know, Bike lanes and increased Public Transit infrastructure. Now, let’s throw it in the Garbage and go back to what we’ve been doing unsuccessfully for the past 75 years.
- This Guy ☝️
Wipe your ass with that.
As demonstrated in Montreal, Toronto, Paris (France), Netherlands (pick any city), Berlin, San Francisco, and every other place that takes transportation seriously, you have to degrow car-centric infrastructure to build people moving infrastructure, including bike lanes.
The growing urban population needs to find more sustainable ways to get around, because you can never satisfy car-centric infrastructure. “One more lane, bro” isn’t an actual solution to anything.
