And you know this for a fact, how? You KNOW that he had no data to reference or if he did, he ignored it?
I do not like him at all, but I think that the bike lanes are a pain in the ass and I am asking you if you can verify this claim. Surely there must be traffic volume and time data somewhere and the premier would undoubtedly have access to them. We need to know how many kms of bike lanes were added, how how long they've been in place, if traffic improved with the bike lanes and how much it improved or got worse. Do you not agree that that would be valuable info to have to see if bike lanes have had a positive or negative effect on Toronto traffic?
1) Yes, I know this as being factual.
2) I know this because I am very well informed by facts and evidence.
3) Yes, I know he had no data to reference except decade old data before bike lanes were being expanded under John Tory, the Conservative Tory.
4) Yes, I know he loudly cited this decade old data while suppressing new, up-to-date, jointly researched Provincial/Municipal derived data when peddling his bike lane removal sideshow instead of actually addressing the root causes of motor vehicle caused traffic congestion and gridlock.
5) Data is available to be found, but you are missing the point, you are looking in the wrong direction.
This is what you and others fail to grasp:
1) You and they ONLY view this issue as a motor vehicle issue, as a motor vehicle traffic issue as if somehow there is way to go back to the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s in terms traffic volume and movement when car was king.
2) A city should not only be just a bunch of infrastructure in servitude of the car. A city's success should not only be defined by how they bow on bended knee to the glory of the car. A city is its people, its communities, its neighborhoods, its culture and everything else that is in service to it. A city is about livability and not about a bunch of infrastructure in servitude of cars.
3) Imagine if the Spadina Expressway and the Scarbrough Expressway were actually built. Neighborhoods and communities would have been carved up. Livability would have deteriorated. Toronto would not be the Toronto of today.
4) Bike lanes are part and parcel of the livability and movement of the people of the city alongside pedestrian, vehicular and transit AND a component of calmer and safer streets.
5) I mean what is the point of moving motor vehicles faster when these motor vehicles are causing such carnage on our streets.
Why in the world would you believe much of anything Doug says?
Afterall, he is proven fraud:
1) Tells his developer friends that he will open up the Greenbelt and then when caught promises he won't open the Greenbelt. After that opens up the Greenbelt to developer buddies and when caught red-faced and red-handed again, promises he won't.
2) Tries to peddle that providing an almost taxpayer funded 100-year lease, a taxpayer funded $500 million parking garage and an additional taxpayer funded $1.7billion to private corporations for Ontario Place as a great deal for taxpayers.
3) Tries to hoodwink the taxpayers that spending over $1.2billion of their money to create a 1/3rd sized Ontario Science Center at Ontario Place instead of spending $450 to refurbish and renovate the existing, full sized, iconic and beloved OSC is a great bargain.
4) Cynically wasting $3.4billion for an unlegislated for, unwanted, unneeded and unwarranted 17-month early election employing the laughable justification that his idol Trump is forcing him to seek a new majority mother of all mandates instead of just doing his f*ck job on his existing 17-month majority mandate.
Why would you believe anything he says?
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