This is not mildly infuriating but an example of extreme stupidity or, more likely, the result of corruption.

Dear Mx Dreeshen,

In regards to your last letter, I believe I wholeheartedly understand your concerns.

Your letter helped open my eyes to the error in our plans for the city and thus we shall no longer proceed to install our planned dedicated bicycle lanes.

You are correct that we must deal with the increasing demand for access to our great city.

Therefore we shall be announcing vast improvements to our road structure in the form of increased public transport services, dedicated bus-only routes, additional pedestrianised streets in major shopping areas, and even a couple of tram routes, on top of the bicycle lanes laid out in our original plan - all thanks to your wonderful letter!

Get wrecked you spineless automotive shill.

With love,

Jyoti Gondek

I hope she crumpled it up, then reconsidered, uncrumpled, took the photo, and then presumably recrumpled it before throwing it away.

Edit: Regendered

The Paris evidence is right there for anyone to look at. Everything works, people get to where they need to be on time, AND the air toxicity has plummeted year on year. Excess and avaoidable deaths reduced.

As if increasing bicycle throughput isn’t increasing vehicle throughput. They’re vehicles, and can probably achieve a higher passenger density than individual cars can on a city street.

Wipe your ass with that.

As demonstrated in Montreal, Toronto, Paris (France), Netherlands (pick any city), Berlin, San Francisco, and every other place that takes transportation seriously, you have to degrow car-centric infrastructure to build people moving infrastructure, including bike lanes.

The growing urban population needs to find more sustainable ways to get around, because you can never satisfy car-centric infrastructure. "One more lane, bro" isn't an actual solution to anything.

It’s almost like being a conservative makes you a shitty and evil person and you fuck up wherever you are at.

Mayor should write back, "Thanks for the letter." And then continue according to plan.

Can we stop putting actually infuriating political BS in the lighthearted c/mildlyinfuriating?

Bike lanes doesn't "decrease vehicle capacity", quite the opposite. Maybe someone should explain what the word "vehicle" means to this dumb cunt.

Shameful. Must have been a nice bribe!

Based on this I can only imagine they must have full throated support of the green line which would reduce intra-city traffic to allow for greater available capacity for provincial traffic.

They could use the inside lane of the four lanes on 4th Ave for a bike lane and a lot of their traffic problem would be gone without anyone missing anything. That would be constructive w/o construction tho.

For Lemmings from other areas, it doesn't read like a warning, exactly, but in the context of what ~~the Alberta government~~ literally this minster has been doing it kind of is.

Edit: Didn't notice this is signed Devin Dreeshen.

Politicians sponsored by the fossil lobby are the norm, even outside pressure from USA (via ambassadors, state visits, bilateral agreements and extortions, or again lobbyists) is normal.

It's present all over Europe as well tho it's (gotten?) weaker.

Dishonorable Devin Dreeshen.

Let's read this study about how adding more lanes and roads just makes more congestion, not less and how car alternatives are needed for the future of transportation to arrive. Like, oh I don't know, Bike lanes and increased Public Transit infrastructure. Now, let's throw it in the Garbage and go back to what we've been doing unsuccessfully for the past 75 years.

• This Guy ☝️

Such kneejerk.

WHAT DOES THE MATH SAY?

I assume that it's legal to ride a gasoline-fueled moped in the bike lane. Does this make everyone happy?