Not a local but sharing the word since this is highly needed.

  • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.caM
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Doug Ford is such an absolute fucker. I think he (and the Ford family in general) are a manifestation of everything wrong in Canada right now.

    This poster is bomb though, props to whoever designed it.

  • limelight79@lemm.ee
    7·
    6 hours ago

    Here in Maryland, they built a new bridge that had a bike lane planned, then the governor unilaterally removed it. We’re stuck with that decision for 50 years at least.

    I said we should protest by riding across our every day, blocking the right lane (which was the “compromise”). The battle for that bridge is lost, but there’s another bridge replacement on the horizon that’s even more important for cyclists, and we need to make that point. (Bay Bridge)

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netOP
      6·
      5 hours ago

      Do people bike the bay bridge? That’s a long ride!

      In my city local officials are pretty supportive of bike lanes, so most major projects on higher speed roads have them. I think the next step is trying to exclude car infrastructure from the city center completely, but that will be a tough fight.

      • limelight79@lemm.ee
        3·
        24 minutes ago

        Well, no, because there’s currently no way to do so. It’s a highway. But people ride a lot on both sides of the bridge, so it’s a logical connection.

        My bike club did a ride across Maryland last fall, and the Bay Bridge was one of two gaps we could not ride - from the border with West Virginia, to Ocean City. (The other gap was crossing Route 50 near Queenstown, MD - there’s just no safe way to cross the highway there. We got back in the car and got a lift for that.)