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Originally Posted by Snark

It will be interesting to see how the provincial government's apparent coming clampdown on dedicated bike facilities on streets will affect every municipality that has active transportation planning (existing and future). If it all comes to pass, large portions of every municipality's master planning will have to be rewritten (to exclude a lot of planned dedicated on-street bike facilities), and perhaps even existing facilities be removed.

I wouldn't dispute your assertion in the scenario you outline above, but the provincial position is driven by conservative political opinions and ideology, not technical considerations. You may recall that the premier's brother, when mayor of Toronto, referred to such users of bike facilities as "bike riding pinkos" (and I wouldn't be surprised if he made allusions to their sexual orientation as well under his breath). Their opinion (and solution) is for all those miscreants to be real men and get a real job and buy a real car, instead of riding your bicycle to the health store to get your vegan food on the way to the monthly meeting of the local Marxist chapter.

The pendulum of politics is swinging back to the right-wing side of the spectrum in much of the Western world. Expect more of these sorts of things, and initiatives much stronger than just blackballing bikes.

Good post. A prescient interpretation of what is happening and coming down te pike.