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Man, 18, charged after collision involving Ontario Premier Doug Ford (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to c/ontario@lemmy.ca

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Doesn't Doug want to raise the speed limit on 400-series highways? A higher speed limit might have drastically worsened the outcome of this crash...

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[–] CalPal@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to comment one way or another on the health and well-being of Doug Ford in this particular instance, other than to say thank god he didn't actually die, but for those of us who have had any regular experience driving on the 401, how are we fucking surprised by this?

The driving is absolutely atrocious even without dangerous, reckless and incompetent drivers, and our infrastructure and institutions basically are forcing more and more drivers to be on the roads, even when the science explicitly states that the only way to reduce traffic is to reduce the number of cars on the road, full stop. Do you think, by chance, that this would have happened on a train? A bus? I know that there are physical and logistical impracticalities of getting the Premier transported securely and safely outside of a dedicated transport vehicle, BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHERE WE THE PUBLIC ARE STUCK.

I'm sure another fucking highway to nowhere will solve all our problems...

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Isn't it obvious this only happened cause of those pesky bike lanes?