Stop The Bike Lane Boondoggle

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Stop The Bike Lane Boondoggle

Hot on the heels of the unnecessary and wasteful "carbon budget", the City of Edmonton has another brilliant idea - spending $100 million on more bike lanes.

Yes, you read that right - $100 MILLION.

$100 million of spending, requested by Mayor Sohi, and approved as an amendment to the budget by a 9-4 vote on Friday.

Here's who voted in favour:

Mayor Amarjeet Sohi, and Councillors Erin Rutherford, Aaron Paquette, Keren Tang, Ashley Salvador, Andrew Knack, Anne Stevenson, Michael Janz, and Jo-Anne Wright.

And here's who voted against:

Councillors Tim Cartmell, Sarah Hamilton, Karen Principe, and Jennifer Rice.

At a time when Edmontonians are already facing record increases in property taxes, Council must be delusional if they think this boondoggle is the absolute most important thing the City should be spending our hard-earned taxpayer money on!

Sohi even has the gall to claim that this amendment is intended to help with the affordability crisis!

But the $100 million he wants to spend on Bike Lanes is almost 5 times the amount he wants to spend on affordable housing.

In fact, it’s almost double the City's annual snow-clearing budget!

As if that weren’t bad enough, the City is already in so much debt that they had to vote to raise their own debt limit in order to keep spending.

$100 million is a really, really large amount of money.

Edmonton is dealing with encampments, the deaths of homeless people on the streets, women being turned away from crisis shelters due to lack of space, a mismanaged LRT line build that is years away from completion, and an outbreak of Shigella - a disease that normally only occurs in developing countries.

We have third-world conditions in a modern city, and the Mayor’s priority is bike lanes?

Budget discussions are continuing this week, so there’s still time to have this amendment reversed and this ridiculous spending removed from the budget.

If you agree that $100 million is too much money to spend on bike lanes, please sign our petition, asking Council to change its mind and Stop The Bike Lane Boondoggle!

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6,431 signatures
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Stop The Bike Lane Boondoggle

Hot on the heels of the unnecessary and wasteful "carbon budget", the City of Edmonton has another brilliant idea - spending $100 million on more bike lanes.

Yes, you read that right - $100 MILLION.

$100 million of spending, requested by Mayor Sohi, and approved as an amendment to the budget by a 9-4 vote on Friday.

Here's who voted in favour:

Mayor Amarjeet Sohi, and Councillors Erin Rutherford, Aaron Paquette, Keren Tang, Ashley Salvador, Andrew Knack, Anne Stevenson, Michael Janz, and Jo-Anne Wright.

And here's who voted against:

Councillors Tim Cartmell, Sarah Hamilton, Karen Principe, and Jennifer Rice.

At a time when Edmontonians are already facing record increases in property taxes, Council must be delusional if they think this boondoggle is the absolute most important thing the City should be spending our hard-earned taxpayer money on!

Sohi even has the gall to claim that this amendment is intended to help with the affordability crisis!

But the $100 million he wants to spend on Bike Lanes is almost 5 times the amount he wants to spend on affordable housing.

In fact, it’s almost double the City's annual snow-clearing budget!

As if that weren’t bad enough, the City is already in so much debt that they had to vote to raise their own debt limit in order to keep spending.

$100 million is a really, really large amount of money.

Edmonton is dealing with encampments, the deaths of homeless people on the streets, women being turned away from crisis shelters due to lack of space, a mismanaged LRT line build that is years away from completion, and an outbreak of Shigella - a disease that normally only occurs in developing countries.

We have third-world conditions in a modern city, and the Mayor’s priority is bike lanes?

Budget discussions are continuing this week, so there’s still time to have this amendment reversed and this ridiculous spending removed from the budget.

If you agree that $100 million is too much money to spend on bike lanes, please sign our petition, asking Council to change its mind and Stop The Bike Lane Boondoggle!

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Darcy Doorten signed 2024-09-11 10:27:07 -0600

I can remain silent no longer. This city council is systematically destroying our roads. My job requires me to travel all around the city of Edmonton. Every where I go I see perfectly good roads being reduced in size, being made so narrow that two vehicles can barely pass each other safely. People are losing the ability to park in front of their home because of sidewalks that are being built 3 to 4 times wider than they have to be. All the while the city continues to dive us deeper in debt and forcing higher taxes on us. This isn’t incompetence. This is a willful, designed strategy to make automobile travel in our city slow and frustrating to force us into walking and riding bikes which everyone knows is impossible for half of the year in our northern climate. This city council is corrupt and needs to be removed.
Dana Cerveny signed 2024-09-04 12:39:36 -0600

They started putting bike lines up this summer and it is a total mess in my neighbourhood. I can’t believe the city is wasting city taxpayer money on this. I write this as 10 minutes ago I just tripped on a crack in the sidewalk.
Susan Schultz signed 2024-08-24 18:09:53 -0600

Why are we spending any money on unnecessary ‘projects’. Stop raising taxes at every turn and start managing the city with tax money already in the bank. Population growth you say, that means more tax money in the coffre? Do Not raise property taxes again!!! Maybe too many management positions at the city??…Wait wasn’t there an audit a few years back about this?
Marton Kiss signed via Marc Martin 2024-08-22 08:24:12 -0600

Sohi = Fail!!!
Marc Martin signed 2024-08-22 07:33:14 -0600

As we face another tax increase in the double digits we can no longer fund this want of the “very few”. The Majority of citizens would prefer to afford to house and feed themselves rather then fund this experiment.
Alexandria Bill signed 2024-08-22 02:32:37 -0600

This woke virtue signalling City council MUST be fired . Every single one of them because their mismanagement has made edmonton a third world country in itself . Edmonton stopped being the city of champions and there is nothing of worth left in this shitty and infact we are a joke. No one wants to ride a bike around a city built for driving unless they absolutely have to . My vehicle was stolen and impounded without notice for almost a month and being impoverished I couldn’t afford the $57 a day being charged and I even emailed Aaron paquette asking if he could possibly help. No response and now it makes sense he wants me to use the bike lanes when I have 3 small kids .. thanks deadmonton. I actually had to buy an e bike as a last resort and used the brand new bike lane that has been installed in front of my home and guess what? The city of Edmonton workers left nails and other construction debris laying in the lane and my tire was popped. I had to call my parents like I was 13 again so I could make it home with my groceries . Embarrassing ! Edmonton is a dumpster fire and there no longer is anything worth continuing live here for. Especially with this braindead city council and our once vibrant proud city has turned into a shit hole I think to think of as camp deadmonton and it’s a shame , you couldn’t pay me to ride transit with my kids not even worth it to take the lrt anywhere because the drug addicted freaks are to unpredictable and it’s safer just to stay home and try and scrape enough together to buy a car . Edmonton is a city that you can drive from once end to the other in roughly 30 minutes but taking transit for a trip that is 5 minutes away by driving is almost 2 hours by bus and services have been reduced . Clearly Edmonton hates their citizens and cars so if you have a disability that’s your problem and it’s reasonable to expect you to walk 3-4 blocks to catch a bus . Infact sohi boy is just getting started he also is proposing a increase to the fair up to $4.25 . He wants to put traffic lights on bike lanes….. When will the madness end?? I remember when Stephen mandell was mayor and he promised to end homelessness in 10 years which at this point I have never seen edmonton so bad as it is now and instead of actually putting the needs of all as a top priority the wants of a very small population is the only thing that seems to matter. It’s madness!
Chris Johnston signed 2024-08-17 17:18:57 -0600
Kenneth Tomashiro signed 2024-08-12 10:14:49 -0600
Leah Rahe signed 2024-08-01 10:34:56 -0600
Julie MacKenzie signed 2024-07-31 20:22:36 -0600
Briana Hryckowian signed 2024-07-24 21:05:05 -0600
Colleen Rae signed 2024-07-24 18:02:29 -0600
Carol Logan signed 2024-07-22 13:14:20 -0600
Mark Ferrara signed via Paul Curcio 2024-07-19 12:23:26 -0600
Raymond Kooyman signed 2024-06-20 12:11:00 -0600

132 Avenue Renewal is making it more dangerous by creating pinch points where 2 large trucks can not even pass each other plus all the blind corners that trucks need to jump the concrete corners in order to turn I have lived near this avenue for 25 years and bought there because I LIKED how easily I could drive and bike around LEAVE THE ROADS that have been good for 60 YEARS ALONE
trystan a signed 2024-06-20 11:26:15 -0600
Calvin Ozimko signed 2024-06-20 08:42:53 -0600

The bikes lanes are for a small porion of the population who will still ride regardless of a lane or not. stop the lanes and save on our taxes. It is not a necessity.
Graham Moore signed via Jody Dosser 2024-06-04 03:47:41 -0600

Respect the Edmonton tax payer
Janice Hatto signed 2024-05-31 20:46:41 -0600
Tara Menzies signed 2024-05-31 20:44:31 -0600
Jody Dosser signed 2024-05-31 20:37:05 -0600
Lorinda Menzies signed 2024-05-31 20:32:23 -0600
Rick Valdemarca signed 2024-05-22 13:46:08 -0600

Please stop this madness! I ride a bike, and see no place for bike lanes downtown.
Ben Kennedy signed 2024-05-21 10:25:53 -0600
G Douglas Oakley signed 2024-05-20 10:33:27 -0600
Brian Dahl signed 2024-05-15 08:33:59 -0600

Why are we spending 100m on 1% of the population!
Rob Stefaniuk signed 2024-05-13 22:51:48 -0600

WAY too much of our taxes are spent on frivolous and extremely expensive ideas which benefit very few people. Bike lanes are only one such example of colossal waste by this city council and admin.
Ben W signed 2024-05-07 14:51:57 -0600
David Nicoll signed 2024-04-12 18:22:41 -0600

Edmonton city council are out of their minds. $100 MILLION DOLLARS on bike lanes is insane. Thank you to the few councillors that are thinking and voted against this stupid idea. Recall the mayor and councillors that voted for this stupidity.
Ishmael Khan signed 2024-03-25 09:05:02 -0600