Originally Posted by ghettocruiser
I guess the reason this got to me was the duality of us spending hours on here debating the safety impacts of bicycle lanes, road positioning, helmet laws, lime green vests, lights, whatever (none of this is a bad thing) and then some elected official simply says "Roads are for cars, you get killed it's your fault!".
How in god's name can we even begin to address this kind of argument?
The good news is that Rob Ford, along with Case Ooates, have long been largely regarded as background noise at city hall for a long time with these kinds of views. The mayor and most everybody else are at least outwardly strongly in favour of more bicycle use.
And hey, at least he mentioned buses as legit road users.
The mayor of Mississauga, in a similar tirade, just said "cars and trucks".
Man I need a mod to change that header.
Go to the city website, select councillors, select Rob Ford, have a look at the photo, it explains a lot here. Lets just say if Mr Ford were to visit BF, we would probably point him to the Clydesdales forum.
Of course to counteract the Fords and Oates on council we have De Baeremaeker and Giambrone. From a Feb 10, 2007 article in The Star by Peter Gorrie, I quote "Glenn De Baeremaeker cycles 46 kilometres between his east-end home and city hall daily and, a confirmed vegetarian, lives the life of an ecological believer." From a January 6, 2007 article in The Star by Francine Kopun, I quote "New TTC chairman and Ward 18 Councillor [Adam Giambrone], a transit poster boy, doesn't own a car."
It's hard to tell with some councillors, some of the photos are old.....