ikeacurtains@ikeacurtains@mstdn.ca
@evdelen@mstdn.ca it's amazing how the EU and Canada can take the same idea and have such wildly different outcomes.
Ev Delen@evdelen@mstdn.ca
@ikeacurtains@mstdn.ca No, it's often by design.
Conservatives in Canada have figured out it's easier to sabotage a policy from the inside than to out-and-out oppose it.
Look at former Ontario Conservative Leader and Toronto Mayor John Tory's initial implementation of the Swedish Vision Zero:
"cut serious collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists by 20 per cent over the next decade".
(Lowering speed limits part of plan: Mayor wants to dedicate $68M to road safety over next 10 years. Spurr, Ben. Toronto Star. 14 June 2016)
Although he publicly backtracked on this after people rightly pointed out that a 20% reduction over 10 years is hardly a vision to getting to zero, the same plan largely got implemented, with rising deaths of pedestrians and un-motorized road users.