LET'S LOOK AT THE NUMBERS of the two largest cities in Ontario:
TORONTO's population increased by 176000 since 2020;
OTTAWA's population increased by 44000 since 2020.
Car ownership in Canada (Ontario data not found in my cursory search) is 707 vehicles/1000 people.
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This is the most overreaching and backwards proposal. To suggest that building effective infrastructure to support more active transport action at a time when we are facing a climate crisis, a health care crisis as well as costs of living.
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I can't afford a car, and I primarily move around my city by bike (even in the winter). I used to have weekly interactions where I would be almost hit by cars on my daily commute or when getting around the city on errands.
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This is red tape, plain and simple, please get out of the way of municipalities performing what they think is best. This will not solve gridlock because somehow the province thinks it knows better.
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This is next level insanity. It’s a complete government overreach and complete waste of money to set up a new team of bureaucrats to look at all the bike lanes? Why not use that money to build better transit. We need more bike lanes not less. More bikes means less drivers meaning less congestion.
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This will make it harder to combat climate change, harder to keep active transit users safe, and it will make government more bureaucratic and slower to act to improve life for their citizens.
And all because our man-baby of a premier has a thing about going fast in his car.
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This is probably one of the most idiotic proposals any provincial government could be proposing in the year 2024. It is patently false on all accounts and is written by a government that is so car-brained it flies in the face of all modern urban planning.
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Restore double lane roads so the possibility of returning the turning lane to traffic.
Add in bike lanes on side streets and through parks to allow parallel travel as the main roads
Implement congestion driven adaptive traffic signalling.
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There is research from around the world that shows that removing bike lanes actually makes traffic worse. What we need in this province is more bike lanes and more public transportation that gives people options to get from a to b outside of their own vehicle.
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This proposal is going completely against the principles of traffic management, which has been proven time and again. The only solution to car traffic is viable transportation alternatives, such as active transportation and public transportation.
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Lane and road management is the responsibility and duty of municipalities to make judgement calls on, not the provincial government. It is not the duty of cities to make their roads convenient for out-of-town drivers at the expense of local residents and living members of the city.
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This is stupid and disgusting legislation that will only make Toronto residents more dependent on private cars. Safe cycling infrastructure is essential for any modern city, and removing lanes will take us backwards.
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Bike lanes make me feel safer as a pedestrian by introducing a buffer between me and cars. Bike lanes save me time as a biker. Bike lanes don't affect me as a driver at all because THE STREETS WITH GRIDLOCK ARE NOT THE ONES WITH BIKE LANES.
I have used my bike to commute to school and work on daily basis in Waterloo. For those who are not in a rural community, removing bike lanes is a trade off that disenfranchises a large quantity of knowledge workers who pay a non negligible amount of work.
The City of Hamilton is going in the wrong direction. The Council has approved 29 million to convert one way Main Street (a main artery for eastbound traffic in the city core) to two way.
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The only way to reduce vehicle congestion/gridlock that is backed by data is to give people viable alternatives to driving. Slowing down the construction of cost-effective alternatives like bike lanes, which cost less to build and maintain than vehicle lanes, can only contribute to gridlock.
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I 100% agree, bikes can have a very impeding impact on traffic . Removal of live lanes to accommodate cyclists is not a good idea . Gridlock is already is bad
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