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[image] The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this warning letter about constructing bike lanes (jlai.lu)
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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/22167250

The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this warning letter

Context

Alberta is a conservative Canadian province that is rich because they extract a lot of oil.

The Alberta Government opposes all measures that could reduce oil-production or reduce oil-consumption. For instance, the Government of Alberta publically protested against the Canadian Government when Canada tried to take measures to reduce plastic pollution.

Calgary is the largest city in Alberta. The city is facing the worse traffic violence in Canada.

Jyoti Gondek, Mayor of Calgary, recently suggested building more safe bike lanes to reduce car dependency. A few days later, her office received this warning letter from the Alberta Government.

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[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Dreeshen (author of the letter) previously worked on the Trump campaign, though lately he seems not to want to talk about that....

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Strong '13 or 30' vibes there.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

13 in mentality, 30 in looks

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

He needs replacing. A corrupt manboy playing with toy cars

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Those rosy cheeks make him look like a puppet

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

Just one more lane bro. I promise bro just one more lane and it'll fix everything bro. Bro, just one more lane. Please just one more, one more lane and we can fix this whole problem bro, bro c’mon just give me one more lane, I promise bro, bro bro please! Just need one more lane

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Her Worship

Is that a real title or sarcasm? It's hard to tell when the state regularly uses these kind of absurd clown titles (eg. her honor).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

It's pretty standard.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

You can't maintain or expand road capacity as populations grow. It doesn't work. Bigger roads means more cars means bigger roads means more cars, it's an endless and pointless cycle.

[–] Blemgo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Interestingly enough, reducing road capacity has the polar opposite effect - demand lowers until it about matches the relative congestion of before.

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

Wider road = wider traffic jam.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 13 points 2 days ago

"Building more roads to solve your traffic problems is like buying bigger pants to solve your obesity problem."

And

"Traffic increases to fill the space allocated for it."

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Minister of Transportation doing his best to be in conflict of interest by way of lobby groups.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Minister of car dependancy

[–] WingedObsidian@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don’t he understands what road capacity actually entails. The space for a car vs the space for a bike. Bikes win the density game

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

Ah but you see, cars are the only viable modern transit so we made our model not count bike trips as valid trips and also made our models assume no one will be biking for the next 20 years cause as we keep adding car lanes and increasing lane number and car speeds, cyclists have been decreasing. We also made sure to not even include existing bike routes in our transportation model.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

Idiots like that only see in terms of volume rather than people moved.

So seeing a traffic jam, which might only have a hundred cars, is like a wet dream to them compared to seeing a thousand cyclists in half the amount of space.

It's disturbing that somebody like that could even be in any position of power, let alone ministry of transportation.

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The government of Alberta currently has something like 6 open corruption investigation ongoing.

That's after they changed multiple laws to weasle their way out of at least 2 more blatant corruption scandals

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Which makes titles like "Her Worship" and "Honourable" such bullshit. We should really just get rid of those titles.

[–] tobi@social.tchncs.de 22 points 2 days ago

@TheTechnician27 so he denies bicycles neither being vehicles nor a transportation utility. Interesting.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 days ago

Did they make a paper air plane out of that letter? The creases look like it

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

so when is the public burning event?

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Interesting folds on that sheet of paper. Somebody showed their respect by making a paper airplane out of it?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

The city is facing the worse

I think you mean "worst"

[–] roastedpotato@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Please don't meet with this person. From this letter alone I assume he doesn't understand traffic or is, possibly, lying... Which is very unlikely, I am sure.