"This morning, Cycle Toronto launched a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 7 challenge to the provincial government’s Bill 212 — Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024, arguing the law’s mandated removal of Toronto’s bike lanes will put lives at risk."
#onPoli #BikeLanesMatter https://mastodon.social/@bikeottawa/113637375331746497
"The number of cyclists in Toronto is triple what Doug Ford claims, latest transportation study reveals
An unreleased $6.2-million transportation study obtained by the Star reveals that 3.1% of Toronto residents commute to work by bicycle each morning, triple the 1% that the premier often cites."
| The Star (paywalled)
#onPoli #toronto #BikeLanesMatter
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/the-number-of-cyclists-in-toronto-is-triple-what-doug-ford-claims-latest-transportation-study/article_117046f6-ac2b-11ef-ae03-bfa9bf7c67d5.html?source=newsletter
Why the hell is Ford meddling in municipal urban planning matters? Because he's obsessed with the "rights" of cars, that's why.
Meanwhile, Ontarians are dying from lack of medical care and shelter.
Doug Ford is such a 🤬🤬🤬
Sorry/not sorry, I'm beyond civilised speech, at this point. 😤
https://hachyderm.io/@jvschrag/113359863501951745
#BikeLanesMatter #onPoli #toronto #torontoCityCouncil
Attached: 3 images I came to the pro-biking rally at Queen’s Park this evening. It was good — great speakers, tight messaging, and then to drive the point home, all 800 or so of us rode in a loop past three Ghost Bikes marking where bikers were killed before safer infrastructure was built — infrastructure that Ford wants to rip out now. 1/ #TOPoli #ONPoli #Toronto #biking
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦
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