Toronto has been making news across North America for its provincial government’s attempt to remove bike lanes, as well as activists’ brave efforts to stop them. But what’s really behind the attacks against basic street safety infrastructure, and why are they happening in so many places on the US side of the border, too?

Journalist Desmond Cole has a solid explainer on The Breach, which breaks down the “right wing playbook” that some politicians use to throw cyclists under the bus — or, more accurately, every single motor vehicle on the road. (Hint: it has everything to do with who rides bikes and little to do with “congestion.”)

You can watch that video here.

Plus: This week on the Talking Headways podcast, we’re joined by Jon Nouchi, director of Transit for Honolulu. At the Mpact conference in Toronto, we discussed the idea of iconic transit systems, time as a performance metric, humanizing transit systems, and the Skyline rail line.

Check out all that and more at the links below.

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