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Rodney 🚧🚇@chanface.bsky.social · 3d ago

Thread about the Ontario bike lane ruling, based on @edwardrow.com on X When all the evidence shows that more car lanes don't help congestion, and the gov's own reports show that removing bike lanes no won't help congestion, the judge ignored that and goes off his own vibes as "common sense” (1/6)

A Court of Appeal for Ontario [59] The question, then, is this: is there a rational connection between the purpose of reducing traffic congestion and the decision to increase the number of lanes for motor vehicles by removing bicycle lanes? The respondents were required to establish that there was no such connection. The appellants were not required to establish that the legislation will prove effective in reducing traffic congestion. [60] Common sense provides the answer here: increasing the number of lanes available for motor vehicles must, at least to some extent, and for some period of time, be capable of contributing to reducing traffic congestion. The legislation is therefore rational. Assumptions grounded in everyday experience and common sense need not be established empirically: Gosselin v. Québec (Attorney General), 2002 SCC 84, [2002] 4 S.C.R. 429, at para. 56. [61] The application judge acknowledged that "increasing the number of lanes available to motor vehicles may allow more cars to travel on a road" and that the respondents' expert "recognized the possibility of a short-term benefit" from the removal of the bicycle lanes. But instead of accepting that a rational connection had been established and leaving the policy debate about the efficacy of the law to the political process, he went on to consider the expert's predictions of what would happen to motor vehicle traffic "over
David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ugh. This is a disaster for Toronto. Ripping out protected bike lanes on Bloor Street, Yonge Street, and University Ave will gut the city's bike network. Crashes will increase. And no, traffic will not be faster.

The Grind@thegrindto.bsky.social · 3w ago

With huge thanks to the 190 people who've donated so far, we're now at $17,375, which is 35% of the way to our $50K legal defence goal! At this pace, we need about 350 more people to give. Read about the case and how to support.

The Grind Is Being Sued By an IDF Reservist Soldier

This defamation case could sink one of the only publications closely covering the Palestine solidarity movement in Toronto and the repression it has faced. We need your help…

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edwardrow@edwardrow.com · 4w ago

they've already de facto seized, and completely obliterated gaza - they've made it unliveable in any understood sense, there is no food production or water that isn't trickled in. West bank is more of the same escalation they've been taking for decades, normalized, systemic occupation as annexation

Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 4w ago

It seems increasingly clear that, unless domestic opposition mounts and/or international pressure increases dramatically, Israel is going to try and seize Gaza and much more of the West Bank in the very near future. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · last mo.

The Conservative Party of Canada spent $100 million trying to convince Canadians to vote for Pierre Poilievre last year They lost the election and ended the year with a $14 million deficit

Conservatives' near $100M annual spend speaks to 'the limits of what money can buy in politics,' says former Grit pollster - The Hill Times

Despite record-breaking fundraising last year, the Conservatives’ $84-million in annual revenue falls over $14-million short of its expenses, as the Liberals' more moderate spending and lower loan bal...

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Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 2mo ago

Working on an archive project for my past council coverage and some of these old quotes from Councillor Brad Bradford are wild in retrospect. This was April 2022! Not that long ago!

Tweet from @GraphicMatt dated April 7, 2022: “The notion that everyone’s gonna get in their single-occupant vehicle and get across town in 20 minutes? It’s an antiquated notion,” says Councillor Brad Bradford. “21st-century cities build bike lanes.”
edwardrow@edwardrow.com · 2mo ago

Old Fire Hall in the Port Lands, six years, one month and two days apart (they also physically moved it 78 feet to the west and raised it to a new grade along with the rest of the area) 2020-05-03 /// 2026-06-05

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edwardrow@edwardrow.com · 3mo ago

I feel like people who used to work for Canadaland should be calling Jesse out. I don't think it's appropriate that he issues targeted attacks on other journalists and misrepresents reality without pushback from his peers and colleagues who helped legitimize him

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edwardrow@edwardrow.com · 3mo ago

in toronto the driver would have already been in, and just stopped in the streetcar lane lol - we'd also have like 20 different orgs yelling about how having a dedicated lane for them doesn't make sense (this one doesn't even appear painted, just a tiny curb)

Marco Chitti@chittimarco.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here is an inspiration for Toronto on how to manage left turns with center-running tram lanes. Cars wait in the rightmost lane instead of occupying the tram lane and yield to trams. It seems to work pretty fine in a very busy unsignalized intersection.

edwardrow@edwardrow.com · 3mo ago

Fun fact: ginkgo is one of the oldest tree species on earth - approximately 290 million years old - having survived “The Great Dying”. Most planted ~today are male cloned cultivars because the female fruit smells bad, but it takes 20-35 years for them to mature to tell if it's fruit-bearing

Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 3mo ago

Councillor Josh Matlow introduces a mysterious motion about the "Female Ginkgo Trees of Toronto." Nunziata: I've never heard of it. Matlow: You're about to. Nunziata: I didn't know they had female trees. Matlow: Please don't read too much into it. It's the fruit. The fruit is really stinky.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 3mo ago

The owner of Nieuport Aviation, the J.P. Morgan-affiliated IIF, is registered in the Cayman Islands. A former J.P. Morgan banker, Hai-Gi Li, sits on the board of Nieuport Aviation. A 2023 document from J.P. Morgan also lists Nieuport Aviation under its portfolio/operating companies roster.

Leading American bank would be a major beneficiary of Billy Bishop takeover

The island airport’s terminal is owned by Nieuport Aviation, which is owned by a J.P. Morgan-controlled group of companies. Lobbyists for Nieuport Aviation have held jobs with the Ford and federal gov...

nationalobserver.com