This is malice. Thug Ford continues to ruin the health of Ontarians.

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Why would you sue the province though? You would sue the motorist who hit you, just like on any other road?

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If bike lanes were removed then you might have an argument.

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Than you could sue the municipality for not installing them on other roads. Thats not how liability works.

They are just getting ahead of the courts being overcome by frivolous lawsuits that will go nowhere.

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17 points

I don’t see the problem. Right to bike seems reasonable to me.

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It’s different when you have something and then take it away. You have that safety feature and then it’s removed. I don’t think it could be argued successfully, but it could be tried. This law is probably just trying to save everyone the hassle and cost that goes with it.

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Why should they not be held responsible for their shit urban planning?

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Because they intentionally designed infrastructure that they knew would place people at risk when it was practically possible to reach their goals more effectively without fucking killing people.

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I think there should be a mechanism to hold those responsible for unsafe road design to account. Otherwise nothing would improve. there will always be distracted and dangerous drivers, and they should also be held accountable, but to build infrastructure in a way that is known to be unnecessarily dangerous should be punishable too

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If the system is inherrently dangerous we should fix the system, but that doesn’t make auto makers, insurance companies and lawyers rich…

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If you can sue the city for slipping and falling on sidewalks they don’t salt, then surely you can sue the city for knowingly changing the design of a road to make it more dangerous, by arguing they have some level of culpability for harm to you if you get in an accident. The city’s own study showed it reduced the rate of cycling accident (see Evaluation here) AND reduced collisions between cars.

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23 points

People get what they vote for.

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Tbf every election, the opposition runs a moldy sandwich as their leader and then wonders why they lost. Not to mention I’ve been getting fucked by every premiere since I became an adult, no matter their party. The reason I care enough to go out there and help campaign against Ford this cycle is because of his Trump ass kissing recently. Keep that bullshit across the border. Otherwise it’s another year without a good opposition

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And if they don’t vote, they get the Ford family.

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11 points

Yeah, choosing not to decide is still a choice.

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28 points

Bro is straight up named after a car 💀

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17 points

They can ban specific kinds of lawsuits?

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It actually works the other way around. Most governments around the world practice Sovereign Immunity , which is a legal doctrine which says the government can never be sued. So most governments around the world have banned their people from suing them in most situations. So this really is just non-news cause that’s the way it’s been throughout all human history.

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How is that photo of Ford not a meme?

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