EDMONTON — Alberta's transportation minister is calling on the province's two major cities to remove bike lanes from key roadways, prompting critics to say the government is overstepping and making an issue out of nothing.
Yeah, 132 avenue is really critical to the provincial road network. /s
The scale of stupidity on display here is honestly humbling. He’s talking about a 2-lane residential collector road. It’s literally 5 blocks away from a freeway the city just spent a billion dollars expanding. Don’t know how to merge? No problem! There’s an 8-lane monstrosity with traffic lights 5 blocks in the other direction. As you can see, the road network in that area is already massively overbuilt. The concern over losing driving lanes/parking spots is ridiculous in general, but to try to apply it to this road is so preposterously disingenuous, it verges on parody.
I would also like to add that the province of Alberta withheld over $100M in disaster relief from Jasper because the town wouldn’t commit to building single-family detached housing. Just to give you an idea of how far they’re willing to go to own the urban libs.
I live close to 97th Street on the north side, and I always think how cool it would be if they put in a tram line on 97th… But no, only cars, ideally trucks. The people suck.
Yeah, 132 avenue is really critical to the provincial road network. /s
The scale of stupidity on display here is honestly humbling. He’s talking about a 2-lane residential collector road. It’s literally 5 blocks away from a freeway the city just spent a billion dollars expanding. Don’t know how to merge? No problem! There’s an 8-lane monstrosity with traffic lights 5 blocks in the other direction. As you can see, the road network in that area is already massively overbuilt. The concern over losing driving lanes/parking spots is ridiculous in general, but to try to apply it to this road is so preposterously disingenuous, it verges on parody.
I would also like to add that the province of Alberta withheld over $100M in disaster relief from Jasper because the town wouldn’t commit to building single-family detached housing. Just to give you an idea of how far they’re willing to go to own the urban libs.
I live close to 97th Street on the north side, and I always think how cool it would be if they put in a tram line on 97th… But no, only cars, ideally trucks. The people suck.