Ontario to declare open season on bicyclers

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Ontario government is considering bringing forward legislation that could prohibit the installation of bike lanes when lanes for motor vehicles are removed as a result, sources say.


The 2022 Ontario election looked like this

	Votes
NV     ~6,100,000
PC	1,912,651
NDP	1,111,318
LIB	1,117,051
Green     279,174
IND	   25,134

NV = non-voters, people who decided to stay home.

If the Liberals and NDP leaders set aside personal ambition and united, they could have won. If the people who stayed home had got of their asses, the current government might be very different.

Comments

[metahacker]

Does Canada give folks the day off to vote or otherwise make it plausible to vote and stay employed?

[violsva]

Ontario allows voting by mail and advance voting.

For national elections, employers are required to give employees paid time off to vote, but I can't find any mention of this on Elections Ontario's website. (Whether employers know and abide by the law is a different question.)

[rwpikul]

I checked Ontario's Election Act: It has the same three hour rule as federal elections, including no loss of pay should time off be required.

[lokifan]

wtffff

[jreynolds197]

I can hardly wait until we get Prime Minister Skippy and he starts making everything that he touches worse on the national stage.

[jessie_c]

I can wait. After the 12th of Never seems like a good date for Prime Minster Skippy.

[kedamono]

It sounds like someone's propaganda of "your vote doesn't count" succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. With 58% of the voters not voting... yeah.

[jhetley]

I recall that you have had some commenters who would welcome open season on bicyclers.

[xeger]

https://grist.org/cities/london-fining-polluting-cars-more-active-kids/
"Four in 10 London children stopped driving and started walking to school a year after the city's clean air zone went into effect."

[dormouse1953]

Actually, reading that article doesn't say the children stopped driving. Very few school kids learn to drive as the minimum driving age in the UK is 17 (except when there are mobility problems, when it's 16).

I left school for university just before my 17th birthday in 1970, but I would not have had time in my final year at school for driving lessons. And, for that matter, when I was at university, I wouldn't have been able to afford to run a car. (And when I graduated, I moved to London, where I didn't need a car.)

I grew up in the north of England and my primary school (5-11 years old) was right round the corner. Our back garden abutted the school playground. Nobody I knew was driven to school. In my father's final illness about 20 years ago, I stayed in the house again. At four o'clock, the road was chock-a-block with cars waiting to pick up kids.

[dewline]

Yeah. We need to fix this mess. We did this to ourselves.

[(Anonymous)]

Does that NV figure include the under voting age population and residents who are not yet Canadian citizens? Admittedly, I have no idea of the percentage of the total population that represents.

-Awesome Aud

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind cycling on the main road - not in Canada, and with a gently convex rear view mirror - but I depend on the cooperation of other road users, I expect that children cycling need special favourable consideration, and I want to know whether "sources" are credible in this context.

British Sunday newspapers have a High rate of reporting of (1) wild fantasy and also (2) contentious ideas that a political authority actually is considering, that they want to slip out and assess public reaction, with the option to deny that the contentious idea ever crossed their mind, their lips, and the threshold of the newspaper office. In reports, the matter of "sources" may be not even mentioned.

Robert Carnegie