This is disgraceful!
Toronto was well on its way to becoming a world class city by creating more transport options in a future where car driving is less and less viable because of the shear numbers on the roads.
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This is a terrible idea that flies in the face of all evidence about traffic congestion, safety, and climate impact. We need a proper city-wide bike lane network so that people can actually feel safe cycling instead of a patchwork of safe segments with deadly shared-road transitions in between.
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As a recent resident of Etobicoke I support this bill. The bike lanes and additional restrictions of ‘No Right on Red’ has caused major traffic issues with very little benefit. Further to that bike lane usage has remained very minimal.
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Please don't remove the bike lanes. This city is already like 99% roads. Can we please just keep the travel ability we've come to rely on? Having to ride in the street is extremely dangerous.
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Removing bike lanes will only cause bikes to share a lane with card, effectively making that lane unusable for motor vehicles and also making it a more dangerous environment for not only bikers but vehicles as well as there is an increased risk of accident.
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This bill should be called the Convenience Over Safety Bill. Protected bike lanes by definition have the primary purpose of protecting road users. Their removal for the sake of convenience is unconscionable.
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This is one of the best policies of this government. Please don’t let the few loud voices deter you, as a Toronto resident, me and family fully support this move
Adding more lanes to cars does not reduce traffic congestion in the longer term, because of induced demand. When more roads are built for cars, the traffic will shortly default to this, and this will lead to more traffic and thus to more congestion on the streets.
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It's a gross overreach for the province to step in and make an addendum that essentially tears out all the bike lanes on Doug Ford's route to work.
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If the new bike lane decisions are to be motivated by data, they should not be removed until actual hard data proves they are causing the issues.
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I feel this proposal is incredibly short-sighted, particularly for large urban centres. I live in Toronto, I own a car but I also bike and use the roads as a pedestrian.
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The Toronto Parking Authority (TPA) is pleased to provide comments on Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 - Framework for bike lanes that require removal of a traffic lane.
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I live in the east end of Toronto, the issue of gridlock in the city at the moment appears to be too much construction all happening at the same time and too many cars downtown at certain times of day, not bike lanes.
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As a healthcare worker I use the bike lanes to get to work safely every day. Removal of bike lanes is just a step in the wrong direction. This will lead to more traffic congestion, more available injuries and deaths, and a city that is just worse to live in.
The Municipal government should make decisions for itself with respect to where bike lanes are located.
It is inappropriate for the Provincial or Federal Government to micro-manage any Municipality on this type of consideration.
Let the local government govern.
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The proposed legislation is ill-advised, not rooted in evidence and is overall poor policy. There is no evidence suggesting that adding bike lanes – however major the thoroughfare – creates measurably more traffic or gridlock.
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I am writing to express my opposition to your proposed regulation to permit the province to block new bike lanes in municipalities and to remove existing bike lanes.
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The Province of Ontario has yet to release any supporting information for the removal of bike lanes.
Where are the numbers that indicate the impact of cycling lanes on travel times compared to keeping travel lanes in place?
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