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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6,983 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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Andrew Wojcik signed 2025-10-13 10:40:02 -0600
Bev Darbyshire signed 2025-10-13 10:35:25 -0600
Cheryl Favell signed 2025-10-13 10:32:14 -0600

Please no more bike lanes we are a winter city more homeless help
Karen Oko signed 2025-10-13 10:30:16 -0600
Theresa Loehde signed 2025-10-13 10:25:52 -0600
Terry Huff signed 2025-10-13 10:19:44 -0600
Wendy Johns signed 2025-10-13 10:19:44 -0600
Larry McMurdo signed 2025-10-13 10:08:52 -0600

stop the madness
Denis Guenette signed 2025-10-13 10:01:57 -0600
David Starko signed 2025-10-13 09:59:53 -0600
Gary Roufosse signed 2025-10-13 09:57:31 -0600

These are the most STUPID thing this city has EVER done!! LOOK at how hermitage Road has literally been destroyed by this ignorant stunt! I used to ride on Hermitage all the time, now I stay away from it. It’s dangerous! Look at the obstructions that can be run into! And What if a driver opens their passenger door when a bike is passing! This city has no clue on transportation, NONE! Ignorant and out of touch. Especially for something that is barely used now (I rarely see bikes in those lanes) and we get snow for 6 months of the year. OUT OF TOUCH. Rip all that out of there and make it right again.
Sandra Mol signed 2025-10-13 09:55:15 -0600
John Green signed 2025-10-13 09:52:01 -0600

Get rid of all bike lanes and the costs that goes with them. I hope all city council is replaced this election and perhaps common sense will return.
Thomas Maters signed 2025-10-13 09:51:14 -0600
Jane Fraser signed 2025-10-13 09:42:32 -0600
Theresa deVries signed 2025-10-13 09:41:05 -0600
Lizabeth Sawyer signed 2025-10-13 09:36:35 -0600

How irresponsible of city council to vote to spend another $100 million when the City of Edmonton is already carrying such a large debt and property taxes have soared during this council’s term.
Chris Gerlinsky signed 2025-10-13 09:35:08 -0600
Bill O’Gorman signed 2025-10-13 09:31:38 -0600
Jason Thomas signed 2025-10-13 09:30:20 -0600
ken harcus signed 2025-10-13 09:28:12 -0600

Convert some sidewalks to Multi-use trails where heavy bike use exists.
Douglas Warawa signed 2025-10-13 09:24:04 -0600

City councilors live on cloud 9!
Rick Tiedemann signed 2025-10-13 09:22:10 -0600

Enough of this nonsense already. Raising our dept limits in order to accommodate outrageous expenses that benefit such a small percentage of the population is massively irresponsible.
Daniel Lamarche signed 2025-10-13 09:18:21 -0600

The cost of a wasted spending is pushing people out of Edmonton
R James signed 2025-10-13 09:17:49 -0600
Brandon Stewart signed 2025-10-13 09:11:00 -0600
Carla Cross-Danyluk signed 2025-10-13 09:09:23 -0600
Linda Oluk signed 2025-10-13 09:06:25 -0600

We are a winter city.With snow piles that the city can’t even keep cleaned from snow.Why have bike lanes cleaned first? Its dangerous in the winter to drive with concrete blockades being used for bike lanes,cars can’t stop,it creates ice and more snow piles.Walkers can’t get around them either.Bikers can use sidewalks.
Alfred Salisbury signed 2025-10-13 09:06:12 -0600
Gloria Schimpf signed 2025-10-13 08:59:12 -0600