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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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This is outrageous. These bike lanes are in constant use downtown. Removing them will end up hurting people. I know this government does not care about the lives of Torontonians but this is just cruel and very indicative of your bias against the residents of this city.

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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Please DO NOT remove bike lanes. The only way to improve congestion and lessen global warming is to provide options for all including bike lanes and public transit. People use bikes not only for commuting but for daily errands and many who cannot or do not like to drive would benefit. Read more

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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This is illogical. The province should not be able to tell municipalities if they can have bike lanes or not. I’ve voted conservative my whole life but there’s no way I can do that again if the Toronto bike lanes are touched and/or this bill remains.

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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This is a terrible waste of public funds and impacts the safety of drivers, pedestrians and cyclists. Removing infrastructure is not a way to progress Ontario. This is also overreach by the province into what is and will always be the municipal governments responsibility.

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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I’m a daily user of these bike lanes, both to get to work and for leisure. Traffic congestion is about to be worse on bloor. I now have two options since this poses a threat to my safety: 1) take the car lane, as is my right because I don’t want to be doored by the on street parking Read more

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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As an individual that both bikes, drives, and commutes via transit (subway, train, bus) I am highly disappointed that our premiere and colleagues choose to support a bill that has no evidence surrounded by data in expediting commute times to work. Read more

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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This bill appears to remove the ability of municipalities to make their own decisions regarding installation of bicycle lanes. This is contrary to the provincial government's stated goal of reducing red tape. Read more

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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Have you ever been stuck behind a cyclist on a road with no bike lanes, having to slow way down until it's safe to veer around them into the oncoming lane to pass? If you have, then you'll know that bike lanes are the safest and most convenient way to divide streets. Read more

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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The purpose of our roads and our transportation network, is to move people. Some people drive, some cycle and some walk. Increasingly cycling is a growing mode of transport, especially on Bloor street. There are estimates that 40% of through traffic on Bloor is now cycle traffic. Read more

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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The provincial government shouldn't be adding to the red tape and bureaucracy to slow down local governments ability to provide alternative transportation options. I use bike lanes everyday and consider them essential transportation options like sidewalks. Read more

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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Prioritizing car lanes in a dense, growing, urban area is poor city planning. You can move much more people (in a method safer for pedestrians) with a bike lane than a car lane. And a bike lane only takes up half a car lane, so you get two bike lanes for the price of 1 car lane. Read more

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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Do not remove or gatekeep bike lanes. The provincial government should not be adding red tape and bureaucracy to slow down municipal decisions on transportation options. Bike lanes are essential transportation infrastructure like car lanes, subways, and sidewalks. Read more

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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This bill is a horrible idea, it promises to rip out important cycling infrastructure. The destruction of the protected bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge, and University will very likely result in avoidable injury and (god forbid) deaths of people, due to the danger posed to cyclists by motor vehicles. Read more

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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Building Highways Faster Act , 2024

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I am supplementing my earlier comments to point out that the minister’s suggestion that only 1.2% of Torontonians use bike lanes is incorrect - it is based on 2011 data and includes the entire GTA (from ajax to Burlington). Read more

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