Resentment politics for conservatives who don't live in Toronto. They need to punish someone vulnerable.

Ford has a vendetta against Toronto, that's all.

It all started in 2010 when Don Cherry showed up to Rob Ford's mayoral induction in a pink suit:

“Well, actually, I’m wearing pinko for all the pinkos out there that ride bicycles and everything, I thought I’d get it in.

(This is a joke).

Seriously tho, the war in bike lanes is quite old, and has happened incrementally. Rob Ford (then mayor) spent $300,000 to remove the Jarvis bike lanes in 2012.

[Rob] Ford defended the expenditure, saying he didn’t approve of the bike lanes in the first place, and the time saved to drivers — which he claimed to be at least seven minutes, even though John Mende, the city’s acting general manager of transportation services, has said it is only two minutes — will benefit the economy by reducing congestion.

But specific to this round by his older brother: lol no.

They were jammed on to this bill that requires municipalities to get provincial approval to add bike lanes when traffic lanes were impacted.

They are going to study it later.

The province has issued an RFP to study and provide design options for restoring vehicle lanes on sections of Bloor Street, Yonge Street, University Avenue, Queen’s Park, Queen’s Park Crescent and Avenue Road. The RFP will also identify options to retain or reconfigure bike lanes, where they make sense and do not make gridlock worse. To get drivers moving quickly, the vehicle lane restoration process will immediately begin on the west section of Bloor Street West starting at Clissold Road, where minimal design work is required.

If I recall, these specific bike lanes are on the same route he commutes to work on. Make of that what you will.