The roads where Ford…

The roads where Ford government wants to remove bike lanes ( Yonge , Bloor and Avenue Rd) are roads that have subways and /or excellent public transit . Why are people driving on these roads in the first place which have the best public transit in the city ? These are the last roads that should have bike lanes removed. The gridlock is not caused by bikelanes ( which are seen as part of the solution along with better transit ) but as all the studies and evidence shows , by construction and Toronto has seen an unprecedented boom in condo and other development . These developers are allowed to block public road ways for their construction projects including on Yonge , Bloor and Avenue Road . These blockages must be must better monitored , coordinated and limited to only where is it absolutely necessary and the developers should pay a fee equal to the losses in the economy caused by their gridlock projects. This will incentivize them to move much more quickly to remove their blockage or not cause them to block in first place .

Lets get at the real cause of gridlock in the City of Toronto - removing and restricting bike lanes is really not the cause and is bad policy and probably all the policy makers at MTO know this in their hearts and hopefully have communicated this to the politicians they serve - it might be good politics for the suburban voter but really bad and regressive policy - quite sad really