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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6,351 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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Lois Halls signed 2023-06-26 15:35:15 -0600

I do not have a mobile phone, just a land line.
Evelyn Skakun signed 2023-06-26 15:29:56 -0600

Remove that nonsense immediately. This is a very northern city which has more cold months of snow than it has cyclists needing roads. Bike lanes are for communities that dont have winter. It’s that simple.
Margaret Layton signed 2023-06-26 14:55:29 -0600
Randy Reich signed 2023-06-26 14:42:20 -0600
Donna Treen signed 2023-06-26 14:36:20 -0600
Nancy Chisholm signed 2023-06-26 14:35:16 -0600
Bert J Reich signed 2023-06-26 14:35:07 -0600

What percentage of our taxpayers ride a bike in the Winter or in the summer? Let common sense prevail.
Eve Bassett signed 2023-06-26 14:34:13 -0600
ron rolfe signed via ron rolfe 2023-06-26 13:56:15 -0600
Patricia Thompson signed 2023-06-26 13:43:59 -0600

We have 5 months of snow who doesn’t understand bike riding in snow and ice is dangerous and hard to do
Jeri Marple signed 2023-06-26 13:33:05 -0600

Please get your priority’s straight. So how many people will be riding bikes in the winter. Take whatever you think and then divide that into 100 million. Say 100 people only ride in the winter, that’s 1 million per person. Who else gets a million dollar a year treatment, and just to ride a bike. Insane is the only word for these people .
Loren Pearson signed 2023-06-26 13:29:42 -0600
Claudine Dulaba signed 2023-06-26 13:12:06 -0600

Some of city council really dont care about this city, or its struggling ppl. Taxes go up, service plummets, bc of ridiculous pointless projects!
Bruce George signed 2023-06-26 13:11:05 -0600

Snow Clearing in a Winter City is a PRIMARY Responsibility of a City Budget Allocation not whats left after Virtue Signalling!
Kimberley Turner signed 2023-06-26 13:10:35 -0600

Reallocation of not in use funds is common sense. There should be a test for common sense before you can run for any office.
Linda Menon signed 2023-06-26 12:48:24 -0600
Laurel Graham signed 2023-06-26 12:36:18 -0600
Linda Wolff signed 2023-06-26 12:35:22 -0600
Terry Pasichnyk signed via Mary Pon 2023-06-26 12:35:02 -0600
Elizabeth Krispin signed 2023-06-26 12:30:40 -0600
Cindy Ho signed via Mary Pon 2023-06-26 12:22:59 -0600
Linda Wells signed 2023-06-26 12:21:31 -0600
Norma Anne Power signed 2023-06-26 12:14:52 -0600

This is a winter city! We do not need bike lanes!!! Less than 5% of the population uses commuting by bike! This is not a wise use of taxpayer money. Please stop this unreasonable use of our taxes!
Kirby Kraushar signed 2023-06-26 12:07:47 -0600
Gail Mercer signed 2023-06-26 11:58:31 -0600

People don’t us the bike lanes anyway. They prefer to ride there bikes in the middle of a lane going the wrong way. Trying to cause car accidents. Have seen it many times while out for a walk
Gordon White signed 2023-06-26 11:50:20 -0600
Rick VanDewark signed 2023-06-26 11:37:19 -0600

bike lanes. Good idea. Project needs to be length and out over 10 years. And $90 million we allocated to more pressing and necessary issues/needs.
michael zenowski signed 2023-06-26 11:35:03 -0600
Mike Cartwright signed 2023-06-26 11:30:35 -0600

The first example of a bike lane was a complete disaster in the west end of the city, I only witnessed 3 bikes using the bike lane all year including the winter season, and now our city leadership wants to spend $100 million dollars on bike lanes, give your head a shake people, we have many other issues we need to solve . This city used to be a 15 min city, all neighborhoods used to have a small store that sold real food and other necessities and we didn’t need bike lanes to get there! Who are the people that are pushing for this , oh wait these are the same people that actually believe we can stop using petroleum products in our lives. We have been high jacked by special interest groups that are misleading the people of Canada in order to push their own agenda. WAKE UP – STAND UP – SPEAK OUT . These small subset of society groups do not speak for the majority of people, they just have the biggest mouths!
Frieda Maaskant signed 2023-06-26 11:29:14 -0600