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Re: Ford on Kimmel
Cyclists :thumbdown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiu1uLgwF1E
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Re: Ford on Kimmel
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 11157998)
They'll come in really useful for when half the city has to bike down to the unemployment office to pick up their cheques. While lovely in principle its a case of ideology suffocating the reality of economics.
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Re: Ford on Kimmel
Originally Posted by jwtimmon
(Post 11157999)
Cyclists :thumbdown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiu1uLgwF1E
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Re: Ford on Kimmel
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 11158014)
I like cycling. Its a healthy, fun activity. But we have places like Stanley Park where you can ride around all day long. The problem is that some people in Vancouver and probably other West coast cities, seem to believe they can create some sort of northern European communal idyll while in reality the sort of policies they propose are throttling the very economic oxygen supply the city depends upon.The only thing that's even allowing such nonsense is the opiate of property taxes. But ironically those who are most in favour of bikes lanes and other such idiocy are finding they're getting pushed further out of the city they want to tranquillize. We need a Rob Ford!
I don't see any evidence of the city being throttled. The port is still there and the main roads to the port (hastings, dundas, etc) don't have bike lanes. Lougheed highway - no bike separated bike lanes. Oak - no separated bike lanes. Main - same. Knight - same. Those are all the main arteries in and out of the city. The lanes are on quiet side streets. |
Re: Ford on Kimmel
I like cycling too and encourage my kids to cycle as well as I think its a healthy low impact exercise.
What I hate with a passion are cyclists who think they can ignore the rules of the road unless it suits them. Breaking red traffic lights, no signals and cycling on paths used by pedestrians. Yet the same ones, and I've watched cyclists do this, hurl abuse at any motorist they feel is not following the rules of the road e.g. making sure that it's safe to proceed on a green because some a***hole of a cyclist is bombing through a red traffic light that turned red 5 seconds ago. |
Re: Ford on Kimmel
yeah, some cyclists are idiots but so are a lot of drivers. And a lot of drivers HERE, in Van, are clueless about what it's like to ride a bike and get mad over normal biking behaviour. Don't whine if you're stuck behind a cyclist on a bike street - there are many, many side streets for cars. Take one of those and shut your pie holes, car drivers.
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Re: Ford on Kimmel
http://m.torontosun.com/2012/11/12/r...e-lane-removal
Ha ha Ford stood and applauded when the lanes were removed. Now that's a Hands on Mayor |
Re: Ford on Kimmel
we will never get a Ford for the simple reason that Vancouver is not amalgamated with the outer burbs so Vancouverites will vote on what works for Vancouver as a city, not what works for Surrey or Maple Ridge or wherever else the car-dependent choose to live. I'm glad actually. I live in the 'burb outside Van and our city doesn't want more traffic either, neither does New Westminster, which is fighting with Surrey over the new Patullo bridge. Why should we have to lose quality of life because some people choose to live far away?
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Re: Ford on Kimmel
Originally Posted by ExKiwilass
(Post 11158063)
Why should we have to lose quality of life because some people choose to live far away?
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Re: Ford on Kimmel
Originally Posted by jwtimmon
(Post 11158029)
What I hate with a passion are cyclists who think they can ignore the rules of the road unless it suits them. Breaking red traffic lights, no signals and cycling on paths used by pedestrians. This should make your day |
Re: Ford on Kimmel
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 11158101)
Ford, who lives far away from Toronto, might argue that more people commute than live in the city. The people living in the city have the advantage of not spending much of their day getting to and from work, they're privleged, why should they have the additional advantage of resources such as parts of streets being devoted to them? Urban bicycle paths and, indeed, pavements (known as sidewalks locally) detract from the quality of life of the car borne masses, they're an indulgence and an inappropriate use of tax revenues. He might add that for each hundred yards of pavement eliminated he would save the city a trillion dollars.
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Re: Ford on Kimmel
Originally Posted by burks
(Post 11157949)
I would vote for him if I lived in Toronto (..and was able to vote in Canada!). Would prefer to have him as a Mayor than some stuck up privately educated toff.
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Re: Ford on Kimmel
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 11158466)
Not a fan of Boris Johnson then?
It makes him more genuine.. can't stand the accent though! |
Re: Ford on Kimmel
Originally Posted by jwtimmon
(Post 11157911)
Didn't think it was even allegedly any more, the police investigated and found inconsistencies in wifes story. Police dropped it.
He's a big bloke, I'd have thought if he was beating her there'd be zero doubt about it. :confused: |
Re: Ford on Kimmel
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 11157954)
Doesn't alter the fact that Vancouver needs someone like Rob Ford
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