Having the fire dept fight against bike lanes and all that is also a problem in Ontario. And they say the exact same things too. It’s insane that they can say such cognitively dissonant things; the damn traffic jam is gonna cost people’s lives too if they’re stuck in traffic, and what the fuck is their argument for that?

If they argue that their fat ass vehicles can’t get into small spaces, tell them to fucking stop buying these shit from the US and look at how other countries run their show; get smaller vehicles and drive more vehicles out when needed, and not haul every tool under the sun for every emergency. And heck! Protection for bike lanes is generally nothing to their giant ass vehicles anyways!

And they need to also stop with the baseless mindset of “hurdurr we’re different from other countries” and start understanding what that difference is and why they’re there, and see that we’re really not that different aside from how we’ve decided to fucking infest everyone’s lives with cars.

Let the cities do things to get as many cars off the streets, and emergency services would then less cars to deal with. If that doesn’t sound reasonable to them, tell them they are part of their problems aside from being everyone else’s.

FFS