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Jérôme<p>Obviously not everything is won. They might find another consulting firms that is less shameful. And <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/CycleToronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CycleToronto</span></a> encourage us to email them so that they don't deliver the 1.5KM of scope they decided to keep. </p><p>But we are slowing the project, potentially saving lives and hopefully leaving more time for the courts to fight it.</p><p>It does set a precedent for other firms. Taking contract from the government doesn't mean it's ethical and you can get a PR nightmare out of it.</p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Biketo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biketo</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/topoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>topoli</span></a></p>
Jérôme<p>Well that is interesting. </p><p>There was a public shaming campaign against <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Stantec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stantec</span></a> engineering firm because of their contract with the Ontario government to destroy our bike lanes in Toronto. There was protests at their office downtown Toronto + an email campaign by <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/CycleToronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CycleToronto</span></a> </p><p>I personally sent 2 emails to their Media person, Colin Nekolaichuk</p><p>Well within Cycle Toronto newsletter, we learn that they gave up on the majority of the project (!!) and will only deliver a small part</p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/biketo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biketo</span></a></p>
Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://urbanists.social/@cargot_robbie" class="u-url mention">@<span>cargot_robbie</span></a></span> Whoa! We’ve long admired work of Toronto bike advocates, including their Cycling Handbook in 14 languages: <a href="https://www.cycleto.ca/torontocyclinghandbook" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cycleto.ca/torontocyclinghandb</span><span class="invisible">ook</span></a>. We link to that handbook on our site’s “Other Languages” [other than Spanish and English] page.</p><p>Photo is some Toronto cyclists we met in 2011, biking in city of Monterey.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CycleToronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CycleToronto</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TorontoCyclistsUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TorontoCyclistsUnion</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Toronto</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cycling</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BikeLanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BikeLanes</span></a></p>