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I support this.
I support this even though I am a year-round cyclist in the City of Toronto.
In fact - I support this because I am a year-round cyclist in the City of Toronto.
I use Bike Lanes everyday.
I can unequivocally say that:
In no way do bike lanes on major traffic arteries provide enough benefit to enough people to justify the negative effect they have on the use of these arteries by private vehicles, freight trucks, public transit busses and emergency service vehicles.
Furthermore, in some cases they create genuine hazards to pedestrian traffic.
These lanes have a peculiar effect on some users, encouraging a kid of self-righteous sense of privilege to travel at excessive speed with little regard, (and often contempt), for the law and other citizens.
Speaking specifically of the Toronto Bloor Street Bike Lane system:
It is largely empty as soon as the weather turns cold and wet - November to April.
It is almost completely empty throughout January and February.
When the good weather returns it becomes little more than a turnpike for food delivery companies on high-speed electric vehicles - an environment suitable only for the young and brave - hardly a majority of our population.
And yet – this convenient novelty for some was not cheap to build – with all the bollards, traffic signals and other do-dads - I often wonder what the per-user cost would come out at: There is even an expensive looking metal gadget installed as a footrest for cyclists installed at Broadview and Danforth Avenues in Toronto.
In a kind of ultimate irony - the Bloor Street Bike Lane is cleared of snow before the adjacent sidewalk: I have seen a Senior citizen struggling through the snowy sidewalk as a City of Toronto snow plow happily cleared the utterly empty Bike Lane.
All this tells me that a small number of people who like Bike Lanes have way too much power at the local level.
Tons of money is spent with little regard for efficacy or impact on all of the citizens of the City and province.
With all this in mind I beg you to compel any municipality to satisfy Provincial Standards before they are able to install any bike lane on a major artery.
I also ask that the Province retroactively force municipalities to remove any existing bike lanes that can not satisfy this same review.
While people like me benefit to some extent from these Bike Lanes we are a tiny fraction and don't deserve such privileges.
Major Arteries serve people from across the GTA region - and when you factor in freight - from across the Continent.
The use of our major traffic arteries by this vastly larger demographic must take top priority.