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City Councillor Rob Ford Speaks Out Against Bike Rides for Charity

While we already know that city councillor Rob Ford doesn't think much of cyclists or cycling in general, now it seems he isn't even a fan of cycling for charity.
According to a Toronto Sun article, Ford recently took issue with the Heart and Stroke Foundation's Ride for Heart charity event. Ford's concerns were unsurprisingly car-centric, with complaints focusing on the congestion motorists experience looking for alternate routes, due to the DVP and Gardiner Expressway's closure during the event. But interestingly Ford's councillor page lists him as a supporter of the Heart & Stroke Foundation. Perhaps just not when bikes are concerned?
With these and other instances of his big mouth getting him in trouble, maybe the tactless criticizing of a charity event will be the final straw. One can only hope.
Thanks to I Bike TO for the tip.


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I could see taking issue with the Ride for Heart if it was a small event but it certainly isn't. Every year more people take part. It gets family and friends out on bikes riding together. It enables people to enjoy Toronto in a different way and to imagine our city from a new viewpoint as everyone cruises down the DVP free of traffic noise. All this and it raises millions of dollars.
Probably as a patient... ;) Rob Ford is a prime example of [s]a lardface[/s] um, I mean car-dependent gravitationally-challenged person who would greatly benefit from cycling or some other form of exercise to avoid succumbing to massive heart attack in a few short years.
God, the jokes just write themselves.
Rob Ford should try to fight some other battle if it's limelight he's after! I can't believe a politician would stoop so low as to try and stop a charity event that is such a blessing for the city.
http://www.toronto.ca/councillors/ford1.htm
the H&S Foundation should disavow him.
Hey, also how does City Hall ensure that this 'successful business man' devotes his time to representing his constituents? I thought you had to divest businesses to become a politician - or does that only apply to real politicians?