cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53084848
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53084670
Today Doug Ford will attack Toronto's autonomy, and choice for safe streets. As well as our right to choose how we get around our city, and to do so without getting hurt or risking our own safety.
Get ready Ford. There are FAR more cyclists now compared to 2012.
Oct 13. Tom Riley Park Parking Lot. 5pm-late. Bring food, water and layers.
Be prepared to arrive earlier in case crews try to do a sneak attack removing protect lanes and infrastructure.
This fight is more than just about bike lanes.
It's about demanding municipal governments be respected, and fighting an authoritarian who believes he can do anything against a city's own wishes.
This is your Dutch moment Toronto!
Show up to show your support!
Lemmy, where pointing out something you diagree with gets you deleted by the mods
I'm a poor trans mentally ill person. I ride a bicycle for many reasons. Two of those reasons is that it's cheaper than a car, and My disabilities make it difficult to drive. The others mostly have to do with a sense of ethical responsibility and hatred of cars.
I don't like being run over by cars, so bike lanes are pretty nice for Me personally. I think it's pretty disgusting how you framed your anti-bicycle agenda as feminist, antiracist, and pro-worker. It's a good thing the mods removed it.
I bet you're wealthy enough to own a car, and you're happy to poison the air that poor people breathe, just to get to work faster.
Sorry for your situation.
I hardly think limiting human travel to foot, horse or bike (until we can get clean energy to scale - and those efforts will require the use of chemstry and other poisons) will be a net benefit to you or anyone else.
The reality is that a world without modern tech like poisonous cars, poisonous planes, poisonous packaging, poisonous fertilizers, and factory farms will support somewhere between 1 and 3 billion people.
Do the people in this group get to pick which of the 8 billion currently alive people get to not starve?
My position is that bike lanes are great, where they make sense.
I am down with trying them on for size to see if they help.
My city is full of them, but the greenways get used to a large extent but the on most of the the rest you will see one bike every six months.
Furthermore, when you do see bikers on those roads with bike lanes, they ride out in traffic anyway because it is their right and how do you put it? Oh yeah, fuck cars.
This group is hurting your cause not helping.
These are just things you've convinced yourself of to make you feel better. You're manufacturing a scenario where people have to die if you don't have a car. It's ridiculous.
It's about how you live, not how many. Anything is possible under science based centralized planning
Humanity is sustainable. "Free market" capitalism is not sustainable. These are VERY different things.