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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6,364 signatures
Goal: 10,000 Signatures

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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Maya Dines signed 2023-12-07 14:33:50 -0700

I believe the Council and the Mayor can look up at grants from the Province/ the Government in order to put more bike lanes. I know bike lanes are needed as some residents use them to commute however more side walks are also needed for any of us using public transportation and walking to get us places within the city. There are a lot of areas with missing side walks which makes it so dangerous.
Arnold Sopczak signed 2023-12-05 08:52:55 -0700
Donna joan DeGeer signed via Sharon Brooks 2023-11-28 07:07:44 -0700

Please stop this nonsense. Our city is a WINTER city and cannot afford this
Bonnie Suter signed 2023-11-23 09:25:03 -0700

Axe the bike lane plans. I have yet to meet a single Edmontonian that is in favor of them despite that city council says people are asking for this. Get real and stop raising our taxes year after year for such nonsense. We live in a winter city, make transit safe and reliable for commuters. Not more underused and over maintained (costly) bike lanes!
D Sitek signed via D Sitek 2023-11-13 22:12:19 -0700

why not have a bill board with all the members of city council that voted the bike that Edmontonians should not vote from on the next election because they are irresponsible with tax payers money .Do the people in city council think that taxes payers have deep pockets and what about seniors with a fixed income are they trying to drive them out of there homes with the high increase in taxes at 7%
Steve Walton signed 2023-11-04 09:44:23 -0600
Myron Kraushar signed 2023-11-02 06:22:05 -0600
Luana RB Browne signed 2023-10-31 23:14:02 -0600

incredible bike lanes over homes for homeless , veterans,single parent families. can tell these rectums are living and housed very comfortably.

the need is all year round for housing but dangerous for bikes oct to, often in edmonton, til april. shape up and get your spending pruorities straight for the most helped with our fricking taxes
Jonathan Milroy signed 2023-10-25 10:15:24 -0600
Kris Lotzgeselle signed 2023-10-25 09:21:22 -0600
Thomas Kamm signed 2023-09-28 17:29:04 -0600
Patti White signed 2023-09-27 08:34:46 -0600
Arthur Packer signed via Mary Packer 2023-09-26 18:13:58 -0600

I cycle 500 km a year – and I am absolutely certain we already have enough bike lanes!
Mary Packer signed 2023-09-26 10:05:15 -0600

We can get our green points somewhere else!
Tony Schumacher signed 2023-09-08 16:59:35 -0600
Les Thompson signed 2023-09-08 10:49:19 -0600

I’m a cyclist but do NOT want that kind of money spent on useless bike lanes.
Gord Guenard signed 2023-09-08 10:38:16 -0600
Janice Schutte signed 2023-09-08 08:24:22 -0600
Christopher Davey signed via Will Burtenshaw 2023-08-29 05:15:41 -0600
Terri St. Clair signed 2023-08-29 00:46:05 -0600
Dan Crumb signed 2023-08-27 23:12:12 -0600
Nola Schimpf signed 2023-08-22 10:31:52 -0600
Shona Miskinack signed via natasha laniuk 2023-08-21 13:44:04 -0600

Our property tax has been raised since and you want to waste money on bike lanes .
Marc Klassen signed 2023-08-21 13:12:53 -0600

I’m an avid e-bike rider and rarely ever use bike lanes. Why? A lot of times, these lanes are used by pedestrians, scooters, and slow manual bike riders making them dangerous. A lot of the main streets in Edmonton are 3 lanes both ways. So use the far right lane as a bike lane like I do. In the middle of the lane not 6 inches from the curb to stay safer and obey the rules of the road like you would in a car. In fact, I utilize the whole road just like a car when I ride my bike and if the cars don’t like it, they can drive around me. The roads are mainly for cars and should remain mainly for cars buses and trucks. Hardly anyone uses bike lanes anyways and are part of U.N. Agenda 21/2030 or I.C.L.E.I. to get rid of cars who’s lovely emissions of CO2 grow our food. I rarely see anyone in them at all. So if you don’t want to see bike lanes, then be patient with people like I am when on the road or get stuck with another bike lane bill. Riding on the sidewalk is illegal too. Buses and bikes on the road are annoying as a car driver, I know. But that’s just for a few seconds. Bike lanes are permanent and are a political tool to get rid of cars that we still need when it’s -35 C in the winter. Blessed is the most efficient/cost effective internal gasoline/diesel combustion engine, for without it, how many of us would be alive today? Long live the Alberta oil and gas industry and the internal gasoline/diesel combustion engine!
natasha laniuk signed 2023-08-21 11:58:49 -0600
Shawna Moroz signed via Shawna Moroz 2023-08-21 07:24:13 -0600
Peter N signed 2023-08-20 17:49:05 -0600

These days reasonability and common sense have been trampled by political correctness and social conformism. Municipal governments ignore the needs of the overwhelming majority in order to make eco friendly fashion statements. Using a bicycle to get around only works when you live with your folks, have near zero responsibility, and work a part time job at some fast food restaurant a block away. This is a phase most of us grow out of, as we start families, businesses, and adult commitments. If I was constrained to a bicycle, it would take hours to run just a portion of the errands I am tasked with every day. Next the city will expect us to abandon the water delivery network and instead walk five gallons of water from the river in clay pots each day. Think of all the plastic pipe we would save, not to mention the fitness benefits. You first, Amarjit.
Tania Gilbey Holt signed via Mark Holt 2023-08-18 18:03:25 -0600
Jeremy Holt signed 2023-08-18 17:20:47 -0600

Please stop wasting money on bike lanes. Please.
Mark Holt signed 2023-08-18 17:17:17 -0600

This is clearly not a priority. Council needs to be more responsible to what is actually needed. We are a city of citizens scared to ride public transit. If you want to help the environment, solve that issue!