The City of Montreal currently has the goal of reaching a 75 per cent active mode share, including cycling, walking and public transit, by 2050.

“In order to achieve that level of public transportation use, we need a lot more than just densifying around public transportation,” Roncace said. “We also need to discourage car use...

Translation: fuck cars

The only hostile infrastructure that I support is roads that permit cars, but makes them intentionally slower than the public transportation that they have to see running faster in the next lane over

No shit sherlock. Now build more public transport.

Link to study?

Seems obvious, but I guess it's good to have more support.

Duck Ford (yes, I know, he isn't in Montreal) and the like don't care and don't read this.

Also makes a hell of a lot more sense to build gtid-tied electric busses and trains than electric cars full of heavy batteries ffs

Economic benefits for whom? I'm pretty sure politicians don't economically benefit for pushing public transport against the wishes of the car and fossil fuel lobbyist owning them. And it gets even better (for their personal calculation that is...) when you realize it isn't their money they are spending anyway.

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Ferda jerbs!