First Doug and Chow demand a RTO initiative at the plea of downtown Toronto business owners and commercial landlords so that people will, essentially, be forced to buy and eat downtown. It’s not working as people simply refuse to pay. So their next brilliant idea is to get rid of bike lanes completely so that people driving will shop and eat downtown? that’s not going to work either. people are STILL going to refuse to pay. This won’t work and if anything is going to hurt businesses even more because people will simply continue to not shop downtown out of protest like they’re already doing.
Why should I buy a $20 mediocre burger at some restaurant on king street when I can make my own lunch or a burger at home? why hop in my car and pay gas to go buy something when I can now just get it delivered on uber?
It’s the same shit with their new proposals for renting. They refuse to acknowledge the ACTUAL issues and rather skirt around it with horrible infected bandaid solutions. We’re all broke. We all can’t afford the cost of living. Want us to live and work and shop downtown again? cool lower rents, lower the cost of everything, and the people will return and shop. Or, heaven forbid, wages increase across the board and STOP stagnating. You can’t force people to buy more when they dont’ have the money to buy more at an increased cost.
Goodness me, that means cyclists will have to take up car lanes!
Fuck Ford and every smooth brained selfish asshole that voted for him.
We gon bike in the car lane. In the middle of it, for safety.
Safety is not even an excuse, but an actual fair concern. If cars can’t give a damn about passing bikes with sufficient distance, then you’re putting yourself at danger by allowing them to do that.
Fuckin’ dumbest shit
Cross posted to https://lemmy.ca/c/fuckcars
Doug Ford and his supporters talk about “the war on cars”. So on one side of this war we have cars. Who’s on the other side of this war? I think it’s a war between cars and people and unfortunately Doug is fighting on the cars side against people.
