Friday, May 14, 2010

Bike lanes and missing councillors

Perhaps I am too cynical but is it possible that some of the missing votes were missing on purpose?

http://tinyurl.com/373lhja


More than a third of city council missed the vote on Wednesday that killed a proposal to create bike lanes on University Avenue.

Proponents on either side said yesterday they expected a close vote, but appeared stunned nonetheless over a decision that came down to a mis-vote by a bike-friendly councillor.

Councillor Paula Fletcher (Toronto-Danforth) accidentally voted in favour of a motion to quash the University bike lane pilot project, which would have handed over two lanes of traffic to cyclists for the summer as an experiment. The rules didn’t allow her to correct her vote because it would have changed the outcome.

The motion passed 15-13.

3 comments:

bigcitylib said...

And was the accidental vote "accidentally on purpose"?

Anonymous said...

yup. Same goes for the Liberals abortion gambit.

James C Morton said...

Not sure -- but maybe -- the accidental vote was pretty hamfisted