Bell: Bike battle! Alberta demands defiant cities cough up lousy bike lane numbers |
We’ve got ourselves a dust-up.
Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas, now a defender of the urban progressive song and dance pushed by the likes of former mayor Naheed Nenshi, has his nose out of joint over what Premier Danielle Smith’s government says about bike lanes.
Devin Dreeshen, Smith’s straight-talking transportation boss, is bringing in a law in the fall to be debated by Alberta’s provincial politicians.
The details, still being worked on, will deal with the Alberta government’s desire for oversight of new bike lane plans and the power to deep-six existing bike lanes where necessary.
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Dreeshen is not a big fan of taking away driving lanes and parking lanes for bike lanes … and here’s the kicker … bike lanes not even being used by the low number of cyclists Calgary city hall was hoping for.
Dreeshen has said, with more vehicles out there, road capacity should be expanded not shrunk.
But here is Farkas on his high horse and it isn’t even Stampede time. Yahoo!
In less than a minute, Farkas, once the firebrand, anti-establishment voice of hard-working Calgarians, sounds like he’s reciting the Alberta NDP........