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Did the City consult the affected neighbourhoods, and do residents oppose the bike lanes?

· Said in 16 comments · 3 claims

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People made two complaints here, and the published record cannot answer either at the level people made it, so both are parked and no research will run on this question for now. Nothing published samples what residents think about these routes, and the City's record does not account for engagement route by route, so it could show consultation where it happened but could never show that there was none.

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Both complaints came out of one argument about one set of routes, so one brief covers them. Both are parked. The opposition half is parked because nothing published samples what the people of a neighbourhood or of Edmonton think about these routes, and a count of who chose to take part is not a measure of what anyone thinks. The consultation half is parked because the City's record does not say, route by route, where it asked residents and where it did not. A third entry below, that the routes were fast-tracked on old data without consultation, was split into its parts at the brief. Each claim below carries its own reason and what would reopen it.

What the states mean

What the record cannot answer

This claim was set aside before any research ran, so it carries no finding. Nothing here says whether it is true.

  • For the fourteen bike routes administration asked the Infrastructure Committee to re-evaluate in August 2026, the City ran no public engagement about the specific route with the people that route affects, before construction began or, for an unbuilt route, by September 3, 2026.

    Set aside without a finding, because no record we could identify can answer the claim as people make it. It comes back if that record is published.More in the methodology· Said in 1 comment

    We could not answer this before any research ran. The fairness check found that the City's published record does not give a route-by-route account of engagement for these fourteen routes. It can show consultation where it happened, but its silence cannot show that none happened, so a claim that there was no consultation at all could be contradicted from it but never confirmed.

    What would reopen it

    It reopens when the City publishes a route-by-route account, checkable against its records, of where it asked affected residents about each of the fourteen routes and where it did not, covering the relevant period.

Where it came from

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.

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The claims under it

  1. Most residents in the affected neighbourhoods, and most Edmontonians, oppose the bike lanes.

    Said in 10 comments

    • whole neighborhoods have voted no and they still went ahead.

      Golden Owl D.

    • This was not fair to 98% of the residents in Holyrood and Idylwylde areas

      Willow Nuthatch C.

    • There are literal petitions in our neighborhood to keep them out

      Prairie Waxwing D.

    • what 99 % of tab payers in Edmonton want

      Boreal Fox D.

    • Thought 80% of Edmontonians said no

      Bright Hare J.

    • Over 90% of the residents in my area were against them, and I'm willing to bet that it's the same all across this city.

      Willow Sparrow D.

    • spending 100 miiion dollars on bike lanes that most residents dont want nor use

      Willow Muskrat G.

    • Most people do not support bike lanes but as usual council does not listen.

      Bright Woodpecker B.

    • No one wants it!!

      Golden Beaver E.

    • NOBODY wants!

      Willow Elk M.

  2. The City fast-tracked bike routes on old data and without consulting the affected communities.

    Said in 5 comments

    • relying on old data and zero community consultation (admitted to in the City's report)

      Boreal Marmot L.

    • They don't do enough talking to the residents

      Chilly Squirrel O.

    • they blatantly ignored hermitage area

      Dusty Crow K.

    • none of the residents were actually informed by Ashley Salvador of the proposed bike plan in 2020. Many of us are aware of it in 2026.

      Hardy Vole C.

    • Stakeholder engagement fail as they did not engage parents with school kids.

      Hardy Vole C.

  3. For the fourteen bike routes administration asked the Infrastructure Committee to re-evaluate in August 2026, the City ran no public engagement about the specific route with the people that route affects, before construction began or, for an unbuilt route, by September 3, 2026.

    Said in 1 comment

    • relying on old data and zero community consultation (admitted to in the City's report)

      Boreal Marmot L.