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Tyler Smith retweeted
My @TorontoStar column: Doug Ford is on a bike lane witch hunt and making magical promises. It’s a distraction.
What he really wants is for you to pay no attention to the housing policy failure behind the curtain. Ontario housing starts are down big.
thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
Tyler Smith retweeted
This is Doug Ford admitting that his policies will kill people.
#Breaking: Ford government to ban lawsuits against province if cyclists are hurt or killed on streets where bike lanes were removed trib.al/Wr39Had
Tyler Smith retweeted
Wrong: "Heat pumps run on fossil fuels anyway..." ❌
Right: In the UK, gas boilers use 4x more fossil fuels than heat pumps. Heat pumps would still use less fossil fuels even if all of their electricity came from coal, oil and gas. ✅
Again, NIMBYs making building everything cost a lot more.
£100m to build a shed to protect a bat colony near HS2, despite there being no evidence that the trains would do it any harm
The mess that has been made of HS2 - and building infrastructure in the UK more generally - in a nutshell
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
Can we get some regional rail on this please?
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Tyler Smith retweeted
Well that's not up to code. A kid could easily fall right through there.
The city's out there building several state-of-the-art $60-million recreation centres in the suburbs, while existing facilities in the core are stuck in the 1960s.
Tyler Smith retweeted
Unfortunately the Ottawa Sparks St Mall does not look like this. And this is a multi-line Amsterdam tram track, not just for tourists.
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Tyler Smith retweeted
Contemporary Conservatism:
‘I won’t make your life any better, but I’ll make you feel better by making other people’s lives worse’
Tyler Smith retweeted
The @MailOnline and @Telegraph recently ran stories about an electric bin lorry fire
This was despite the fact that the fire was caused by some flammable waste...
...and had nothing to do with the vehicle's electric drive train
A case study in EV misinformation (a thread)
Tyler Smith retweeted
The scariest thing about Halloween is #OttCity streets and intersections.
If you must drive tonight, please drive slowly and stay alert, especially in residential neighbourhoods.
#otttraffic #Halloween2024
👻🎃💀🎃👻💀
Tyler Smith retweeted
If Doug starts removing bike lanes I think that’s the thing that will finally have me packing it up and leaving Ontario. Politicization of basic low cost infrastructure, while the province fails to cost effectively construct transit infrastructure. It’s unserious.
Tyler Smith retweeted
They claimed traffic congestion was caused by trains, street cars, wide sidewalks, urban neighborhoods... So we destroyed all those things to "solve traffic", yet traffic is worse than ever. Now they're blaming bike lanes? It has always just been cars - cars cause congestion.
Tyler Smith retweeted
Not enough operators may not be a technical problem with the LRT system, but it’s a big factor in the reliability of that system. #ottnews ottawacitizen.com/news/local…
