Un-fun fact: the laws that allow cities to exist are at the provincal level, which is what allows them to do this. It’s also why they are able to reduce the number of councillors in Toronto a few years ago, and how they can force amalgamation.
I wonder if as many people would have voted for Doug if they knew this.
What if they narrowed existing lanes, a daily took land from surrounding businesses blaming Ford? Or tolled the shit out of the road for non local commuters until a multi use path was built with the funds?
There is no rule or law a municipality has that isn’t because the province okay’d it, and that the province can say ‘nah’ to. That means zoning, road construction, taxes, etc.
That’s why people are taking direct action like this…
I am beyond pissed about this. It screams corruption and provincial government overreach.
Decisions like these belong to the city and the local residents, to our local mayor.
Doug Ford since day one. He hasn’t been shy about it either.
Doug Ford 100% thinks he’s the mayor of Toronto. It’s all he ever does anything about, the rest of the province means basically nothing to him.
Un-fun fact: the laws that allow cities to exist are at the provincal level, which is what allows them to do this. It’s also why they are able to reduce the number of councillors in Toronto a few years ago, and how they can force amalgamation.
I wonder if as many people would have voted for Doug if they knew this.
So question. What stops the local government from, after they are removed, investing in building new ones?
The law they passed.
I talk about it at the end of this comment. The original law was to prevent new installs where they remove traffic lanes.
It was amended to add the removal of these.
What if they narrowed existing lanes, a daily took land from surrounding businesses blaming Ford? Or tolled the shit out of the road for non local commuters until a multi use path was built with the funds?
There is no rule or law a municipality has that isn’t because the province okay’d it, and that the province can say ‘nah’ to. That means zoning, road construction, taxes, etc.
That’s why people are taking direct action like this…