About time, a provincial…

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About time, a provincial government who has seen and experienced the gridlock as a result of these bike lanes and is listening to the people. They are useless, very expensive where the money spent on them could be placed elsewhere. There are more cars on the road than bicycles, plus how many cyclists are out driving in the winter compared to cars??? The emergency vehicles cannot get through when both lanes are full of cars, no where to pull over for them. Seconds count in those situations. The city certainly did not think or even investigate for that matter the chaos that these bike lanes have caused in emergency situations as well as day to day traffic.
How about the businesses who are losing money as no one wants to go up to Bloor Street. I’ve seen a handful of cyclists on Bloor Street and that’s on a good day. There are far more cars stuck in traffic because of the lane reductions, but yet no cyclists can be found. This certainly does not warrant spending taxpayers money on useless bike lanes. Plus Parkside Drive is also a main thoroughfare to the lakeshore/Gardner, absolutely no bike lanes should be put on that street.
The city certainly did not think any of this through. It’s bad enough these cyclists have taken over High Park, which is another joke.
I agree 100% with Doug Ford’s legislation on the lanes. At least he thinks about the outcome. Get rid of them.