This is the history of basically all of our anti-urbanist regulation in the US and Canada which makes it exorbitantly expensive to build, while funding the building of highways but making transit building regulations unfunded mandates. As soon as ordinary people realized the promise of cars were fake in San Francisco they built BART, and within a few years NEPA was formed to prevent future BART systems in the rest of the United States. Doug Ford’s fake populism is very normal for Anglo conservatives. If the people want to do anything except commute in their cars to work on a highway, literally make it illegal for them to do anything else. This is why turning to urbanist solutions which are not made de facto illegal is a losing battle, we need to actively fight anti-urbanist central planning head on to make it legal and affordable to build transit and bike lanes across the US and Canada. Doug Ford has proven every other path is a fantasy.
Written in response to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FZDEehlaC4