‘They’re coming out’: Ford says he will remove bike lanes from 3 Toronto streets | Globalnews.ca
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he plans to remove bike lanes from three Toronto streets, whatever the data submitted by city officials.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/31516123

It’s happening, the worst mayor Toronto has ever had is removing three major recently completed bike lanes at tax payer expense. That’s right, Ontario tax payers are footing the bill for Ford to meddle in Toronto municipal infrastructure. This is of course to distract us from failing healthcare and education while appealing to his mostly car centric base.

There is a protest happening Wed. 23rd of October, please come out if you can. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/rally-ride-for-road-safety-tickets-1045417761667

  • undercrust
    26·
    29 days ago

    Since when does the Premier of Ontario get to decide what a municipal government does?

    • OutlierBlueEnglish
      19·
      29 days ago

      Since that’s how it works. The province has full control over cities.

      However we haven’t had such a massive idiot trying to virtue signal like this as premier before.

      • undercrust
        7·
        29 days ago

        Huh, interesting. I just looked it up to get more info, and this is kind of a bum deal that municipalities are “given” power by the province, so they just have to eat shit on getting it right or wrong, and then can potentially be overridden by a zealot like Ford anyways. Awful…

        (from https://www.amo.on.ca/about-us/municipal-101)

        Municipal Government

        The powers of municipal governments are determined by the provincial government. Municipal governments in Ontario are responsible for providing many of the services within their local boundaries that you rely on daily such as:

        • Airports
        • Ambulance
        • Animal Control and By-law Enforcement
        • Arts and Culture
        • Child Care
        • Economic Development
        • Fire Services
        • Garbage Collection and Recycling
        • Electric Utilities
        • Library Services
        • Long Term Care and Senior Housing
        • Maintenance of Local Road Network
        • Parks and Recreation
        • Public Transit
        • Planning New Community Developments and Enhancing Existing Neighbourhoods
        • Police Services
        • Property Assessment
        • Provincial Offences Administration
        • Public Health
        • Side Walks
        • Snow Removal
        • Social Services
        • Social Housing
        • Storm Sewers
        • Tax Collection
        • Water and Sewage
    • AuliEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      Always municipalities only have the power they the province grants them.