Posts
[article] Ford government to table legislation to restrict bike lanes on city streets | Globalnews.ca
The law, Global News has learned, is currently set to be titled the Reducing Gridlock and Saving You Time Act and could be presented when the legislature returns at the end of October. Primarily aimed at drivers, it will include new provincial requirements on bike lanes.
...
The specifics of the legislation have not been made public but sources told Global News said the government was considering restrictions on towns and cities removing existing lanes of traffic to create bike lanes.
Absolute clowns.
![[article] Ford government to table legislation to restrict bike lanes on city streets | Globalnews.ca](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3af7f3dc-fd54-48ea-b36b-e141ed18ebac.jpeg)
https://globalnews.ca/news/10765855/ontario-legislation-restrict-bike-lanes-city-streets/Open linkView original on lemmy.world![[article] Opinion | Yes In My Backyard: The Case for Housing Deregulation](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2ed16c5a-e9e9-4032-9326-da6f8ee6b849.jpeg)
[article] Montreal becomes largest North American city to eliminate mandatory minimum parking spots
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16703609
![[article] Montreal becomes largest North American city to eliminate mandatory minimum parking spots](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/57afe0d3-0d8b-466d-9d0e-07f11cbe9c27.jpeg)
https://cultmtl.com/2024/06/montreal-becomes-largest-north-american-city-to-eliminate-mandatory-minimum-parking-spots/Open linkView original on lemmy.world![[article] Montreal becomes largest North American city to eliminate mandatory minimum parking spots](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c3e92c5e-9b60-4b40-96fe-bcba4d8c751a.jpeg)
[article] Opinion: Making housing more affordable means your home’s value is going to have to come down
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/fc2ci
![[article] Opinion: Making housing more affordable means your home’s value is going to have to come down](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/22c83ea4-9cb5-408a-a2be-50546913f738.jpeg)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-you-want-housing-affordability-to-go-up-without-home-prices-going-down/Open linkView original on lemmy.world[meme] WOKE transit vs PATRIOT transit
Me doing my part to portray car dependency as deeply unpatriotic. Which it kinda unironically is.
[article] Eliminating 'parking minimums' helped U.S. cities. Could it work here? | CBC
Ottawa recently announced they're considering removing their mandatory parking minimums. For context, parking minimums are extremely arbitrary, based on pseudoscience, and are a key barrier to housing development.
[article] Opinion: Lowering Canada’s high housing costs is also a recipe for raising our notoriously low productivity
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/J2cSo
Turns out the housing crisis is awful for the economy at large.
![[article] Opinion: Lowering Canada’s high housing costs is also a recipe for raising our notoriously low productivity](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0d1b6a54-284c-48c2-8c17-593f533e5afd.jpeg)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-lowering-canadas-high-housing-costs-is-also-a-recipe-for-raising-our/Open linkView original on lemmy.world[article] In France, the Future Is Arriving on a Barge
The Seine is becoming a test case for a European plan to cut carbon emissions by turning rivers into the new highways.
![[article] In France, the Future Is Arriving on a Barge](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0fc29adb-694b-4949-a749-5c855c8ccc99.jpeg)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/business/in-france-the-future-is-arriving-on-a-barge.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world![[article] Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/29f3072e-61d5-46ee-9013-34f58fc14687.jpeg)