Premier Ford’s Deperate…

Premier Ford’s Deperate Attempt to Pit Cars against Bikes.

I disagree with this proposal in the strongest possible way. Bike lanes help ease congestion, their existence does not add to it.
What causes congestion is trying to move people, one or two at a time, in personal motor vehicles - which are around the footprint of a queen sized bed. It’s not hard to understand: when you try to move everyone around in their own personal queenside bed, you get congested streets . These bloated vehicles ( and their already existing domination on our streets) are what clog up urban streets… taking back a bike lane does nothing to help with this. Not to mention the issues with storing these personal motors vehicles. Think you need an extra lane for car traffic ( you don’t, but for arguments sake) why don’t you start with removing all on street parking for cars? Think about the benefit of not having half a dozen stationary queen size beds taking up a lane every block?

Also, without safe infrastructure to move around the city in - how are people who currently travel by bike meant to get around? Oh that’s right, they’ll switch to using a queen size bed vehicle themselves. So your solution to reduce congestion is to …add more drivers?

And what proof do you have that this is a sensible course of action? What studies have been done? Or is this just a catchy title to try and fool people.

I’m going to stop here. It’s hard to respond to this proposal because it’s so idiotic.

Of course it’s shouldn’t be the provincial government’s decision to rule on something to do with municipal movement of people. This is clearly a thinly veiled attempt of the premier to stoke culture war conversations instead of trying to solve actual issues ( and yes, congestion is an actual issue).

As someone who uses a car, public transit, and occasionally cycles, this is abhorrent. And a huge waste of government resources even talking about it.

The only positive is to show what an ineffective leader Doug Ford is.