Dear Mx Dreeshen,

In regards to your last letter, I believe I wholeheartedly understand your concerns.

Your letter helped open my eyes to the error in our plans for the city and thus we shall no longer proceed to install our planned dedicated bicycle lanes.

You are correct that we must deal with the increasing demand for access to our great city.

Therefore we shall be announcing vast improvements to our road structure in the form of increased public transport services, dedicated bus-only routes, additional pedestrianised streets in major shopping areas, and even a couple of tram routes, on top of the bicycle lanes laid out in our original plan - all thanks to your wonderful letter!

Get wrecked you spineless automotive shill.

With love,

Jyoti Gondek

I hope she crumpled it up, then reconsidered, uncrumpled, took the photo, and then presumably recrumpled it before throwing it away.

Edit: Regendered

This is not mildly infuriating but an example of extreme stupidity or, more likely, the result of corruption.

As if increasing bicycle throughput isn’t increasing vehicle throughput. They’re vehicles, and can probably achieve a higher passenger density than individual cars can on a city street.

The Paris evidence is right there for anyone to look at. Everything works, people get to where they need to be on time, AND the air toxicity has plummeted year on year. Excess and avaoidable deaths reduced.

Wipe your ass with that.

As demonstrated in Montreal, Toronto, Paris (France), Netherlands (pick any city), Berlin, San Francisco, and every other place that takes transportation seriously, you have to degrow car-centric infrastructure to build people moving infrastructure, including bike lanes.

The growing urban population needs to find more sustainable ways to get around, because you can never satisfy car-centric infrastructure. "One more lane, bro" isn't an actual solution to anything.

Mayor should write back, "Thanks for the letter." And then continue according to plan.

Can we stop putting actually infuriating political BS in the lighthearted c/mildlyinfuriating?

Shameful. Must have been a nice bribe!

It’s almost like being a conservative makes you a shitty and evil person and you fuck up wherever you are at.

Based on this I can only imagine they must have full throated support of the green line which would reduce intra-city traffic to allow for greater available capacity for provincial traffic.

They could use the inside lane of the four lanes on 4th Ave for a bike lane and a lot of their traffic problem would be gone without anyone missing anything. That would be constructive w/o construction tho.

Politicians sponsored by the fossil lobby are the norm, even outside pressure from USA (via ambassadors, state visits, bilateral agreements and extortions, or again lobbyists) is normal.

It's present all over Europe as well tho it's (gotten?) weaker.

For Lemmings from other areas, it doesn't read like a warning, exactly, but in the context of what the Alberta government literally this minster has been doing it kind of is.

Edit: Didn't notice this is signed Devin Dreeshen.

Let's read this study about how adding more lanes and roads just makes more congestion, not less and how car alternatives are needed for the future of transportation to arrive. Like, oh I don't know, Bike lanes and increased Public Transit infrastructure. Now, let's throw it in the Garbage and go back to what we've been doing unsuccessfully for the past 75 years.

• This Guy ☝️

Dishonorable Devin Dreeshen.

Such kneejerk.

WHAT DOES THE MATH SAY?

I assume that it's legal to ride a gasoline-fueled moped in the bike lane. Does this make everyone happy?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The city is facing the worse

I think you mean "worst"

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.

so when is the public burning event?