Engineering report prepared for the province estimates the Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes could increase collisions by 54 per cent
This looks like a good report, but I don’t think drivers really care much about collisions, and basing a report on them isn’t helpful, since most people think that collisions are the exception and have nothing to do with them.
Instead, concentrating on how much more it delays the average commute is far better since that affects everybody on a daily basis. Even if the Ford government is willing to ignore reports like this, publicizing them and using them as ammo against Ford’s policies is helpful since he’s got such a weak spine, public backlash when you have public proof of him doing something objectively wrong that’ll affect everybody negatively is effective against him.
This looks like a good report, but I don’t think drivers really care much about collisions, and basing a report on them isn’t helpful, since most people think that collisions are the exception and have nothing to do with them.
Instead, concentrating on how much more it delays the average commute is far better since that affects everybody on a daily basis. Even if the Ford government is willing to ignore reports like this, publicizing them and using them as ammo against Ford’s policies is helpful since he’s got such a weak spine, public backlash when you have public proof of him doing something objectively wrong that’ll affect everybody negatively is effective against him.