The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter

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• ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is definitely to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.

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• IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If only

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• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    She

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    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fixed ty

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  • vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    She built a paper plane out of it.

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  • Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It almost looks like someone started to make a paper airplane out of it.

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  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    May she have used it as toilet paper

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• MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• mercano@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No ,no, the letter specifically singles out motor vehicles. Burning gas is the point. This letter has nothing to do with transporting people.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, the letter is pretty ambiguous in how it’s worded… It’s hard to tell if they’re chastising Calgary for removing bike lanes or wanting to add more (at the expense of motor vehicle traffic).

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ather way around.

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    • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tomatoe, tomato.

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• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • roserose56@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They won’t stop, lemmy now is 80% politics.

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    • diffusive@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t the world 80% politics these days?

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• AstaKask@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pennywise pound foolish

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This government has blown up one Calgary transport plan already (they’re literally building two halves that don’t reach downtown now), so that may or may not be wise. Cities don’t really have constitutional protections here.

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• SirMaple__@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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• 0li0li@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shameful. Must have been a nice bribe!

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• JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Throw in dedicated bus lanes with priority at lights and then you’re cooking.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It doesn’t read like a warning, exactly, but in the context of what the Alberta government has been doing it kind of is.

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  • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t need to know anything about Alberta or the region. This is just how politicians talk.

    If this was about honest concerns he would have addressed why the city plans to build bike lanes. Instead he just talks about “tax dollars” and increasing capacity for “all citizens”. Which shows that he has a complete disregard for the existence of citizens who do not take a car for every small move.

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      increasing capacity for “all citizens”

      The law, in its majestic equality, enables the rich as well as the poor to drive their luxury vehicles everywhere.

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• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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 ☝️

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dishonorable Devin Dreeshen.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Such kneejerk.

  WHAT DOES THE MATH SAY?

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I assume that it’s legal to ride a gasoline-fueled moped in the bike lane, and that no car lanes are being removed. Does this make everyone happy?

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