Just in time for Mayor Gregor Robertson and his bike-lane-lovin’ Vision Vancouver slate’s re-election bid, the City of Vancouver is unveiling two new bike lane counters. At $30,000 a pop, they will act as a political scoreboard for Vision’s bike lane agenda.
Peter Grainger and CTV broke the story here.
Even if you support bike lanes, surely there are better ways to encourage bikes than spending $60,000 on political grandstanding. Bike racks, for example. Other bike lane upgrades, for another. Come on.
But the Vision apologists will no doubt rush in and condemn such logical criticism as Neanderthal, world-destroying, car-using thinking. They’re wrong, of course, but when has that ever mattered at election time?
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