TEASER: Doug Ford and Ontario's War on Bikes
The War on Cars
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4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Back in 2010, the notoriously pugnacious Toronto mayor Rob Ford declared that “the war on the car is over,” and vowed to halt the city’s expansion of bike lanes, transit, and anything that inconvenienced motorists even slightly. Fourteen years later, his brother — Ontario Premier Doug Ford — has continued the family crusade against bike lanes. The Ford government is pushing a bill that would require provincial approval of all bike lanes that repurpose car lanes. If it succeeds, it will have a chilling effect on the ability of cities and towns of all sizes to manage their streets and keep people safe. Plus, a handful of existing bike lanes could be ripped out.
Journalist Sabrina Nanji, a veteran of the Queen’s Park Press Gallery and the founder of the Queens Park Observer joins us to talk about the politics behind Doug Ford’s war on bikes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. I am Doug Gordon, and I'm one of the co-hosts of the War on Cars. |
| 0:15.4 | This is a preview of an exclusive episode just for Patreon subscribers. |
| 0:20.2 | It's about the situation in Canada, |
| 0:22.9 | where Ontario Premier Doug Ford |
| 0:24.8 | is pushing legislation that would drastically impede |
| 0:28.1 | the ability of cities to install bike lanes. |
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| 1:21.8 | Let's talk about Bill 212, which is also called the Reducing Gridlock Saving You Time Act. |
| 1:29.6 | It's described as a framework for bike lanes that require removal of a traffic lane. |
| 1:33.8 | What's going on with this bill, Sabrina? |
| 1:35.7 | Yeah, so this is essentially like an omnibus package from our transportation minister, |
| 1:40.2 | Pradmeet, Circaria. And the Ford government, if, you know, the title of the bill didn't |
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