• Corngood@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    This isn’t even about transportation policy. It’s literally just “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting” policy.

    Working class conservative voters get nothing out of a conservative government other than potentially hurting other working class people they’ve been taught to hate.

  • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Yeah, 132 avenue is really critical to the provincial road network. /s

    The scale of stupidity on display here is honestly humbling. He’s talking about a 2-lane residential collector road. It’s literally 5 blocks away from a freeway the city just spent a billion dollars expanding. Don’t know how to merge? No problem! There’s an 8-lane monstrosity with traffic lights 5 blocks in the other direction. As you can see, the road network in that area is already massively overbuilt. The concern over losing driving lanes/parking spots is ridiculous in general, but to try to apply it to this road is so preposterously disingenuous, it verges on parody.

    I would also like to add that the province of Alberta withheld over $100M in disaster relief from Jasper because the town wouldn’t commit to building single-family detached housing. Just to give you an idea of how far they’re willing to go to own the urban libs.

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      5 days ago

      I live close to 97th Street on the north side, and I always think how cool it would be if they put in a tram line on 97th… But no, only cars, ideally trucks. The people suck.

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        Correct. It’s a right wing conversative problem. Just like they believe nazis were socialists, they believe conservatives conserve things when all they do is destroy, because it’s in the name