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Did council pause the future bike routes when its own administration recommended it?

· Discussed by 6 people · 4 claims

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Administration’s report and recorded votes can show what pause was recommended, which motions were made and how each councillor voted, without examining the allegation about councillors’ motives.

The committee report and the recorded council votes settle the recommendation, the motions and who voted which way.

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Taken from Yegscoop post on council's 2026-08-26 bike lane decision, read end to end. Every factual claim in it was extracted and merged, so this question is listed whatever became of it.

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The names below are pseudonyms, one to a commenter within this source; the number is the comment's place in the captured thread.

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  1. Council did not support the recommended pause and review of the future bike routes.

    Discussed by 5 people

    • That review was also not supported by Council.

      Councillor Jennifer Rice · comment 449

    • The city’s recommendation was to PAUSE the bike lines until more information was obtained to continue it in a thoughtful way that worked for residents that it affects as well as drivers and bikers. Council chose to ignore that.

      Boreal Crow K. · comment 406

    • Typical city council, ignore a committee's decision and go thier own route.

      Amber Coyote T. · comment 441

    • They already ignore the citizens, might as well ignore their own committees too.

      Snowy Bluejay M. · comment 356

    • The motion was not to scrap the routes, but rather to not rapidly push them through without a second look.

      Boreal Marmot L. · comment 200

  2. Councillor Karen Principe and Councillor Jennifer Rice brought two motions to cut the bike lane budget to $50 million and redirect the rest, and Council did not support them.

    Discussed by 1 person

    • Councillor Karen Principe and I brought forward two motions — twice — to cut it to $50M and redirect the rest to core priorities. Council didn’t support them.

      Councillor Jennifer Rice · comment 449

  3. The same seven councillors vote together to keep the bike lane expansion going.

    Discussed by 1 person

    • the core 7 councillors never had an intention of pausing it.

      Icy Grebe A. · comment 39

    • The same old 7 councillors who are in a corrupt clique voted for it.

      Icy Grebe A. · comment 577