This is a dangerous proposal that is not substantiated by any relevant data. In fact, data points to a significant increase in road safety and business activity when bike lanes are installed.
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It should not be up to the province to decide where bike lanes go within a city. If the province wants to reduce gridlock, then it should focus on getting people out of cars and onto bikes and public transit.
My mother was run over by a car that lost control while biking on a separated, but unprotected, path two years ago. The force was such that the bike sliced into her abdomen, narrowly missing crucial internal organs. Bones were protruding from her left leg.
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Removing Bike Lanes will endanger lives and make traffic worse. Cars are the least efficient use of limited road space, giving people alternatives to single occupancy vehicles is the only way to reduce congestion. Safe bike lanes are essential to getting around this city.
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The facts do not support this legislation. It is simply based on some disgruntled drivers (some in Doug Ford's riding) and not on the facts which are that bike lanes do not cause congestion. I do not bike, but I walk and these lanes make it safer for all. Have you even read the studies?
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As a retired 67 year old woman, who owns a car but also loves to cycle I don’t like the plans set out in Bill 212. Gridlock won’t improve with the removal of Bike lanes.
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Please do not remove bike lanes! This does not seem to be an appropriate use of funding. Proper bike lanes provide a safe, alternate way of travel (which may help reduce congestion).
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Do NOT proceed with this. I use these bike lanes every day. They contribute to traffic flow and safety for both car drivers and bikers. They allow to me to get to where I need much faster without interfering with car traffic.
I think it is totally ridiculous that the city needs to seek provincial approval to allow for the implementation of new bicycle lanes. It is also ridiculous that the province wants to remove bike lanes that have been implemented around the city. You should be implementing more!
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The streets in question do not need more traffic on them. Fix mass transportation if you want to help people commute. Cyclists are FAR more at risk from death without these bike lanes than the minuscule time saved by removing bike lanes.
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I rely on the bike lanes in downtown Toronto to keep my kids and community safe. Tearing them out to make room for cars is not only a waste of time and money, but shows that the government clearly doesn't care about the people who live and work in this city.
An egregious overstepping of provincial power to serve an outdated philosophy that the car is king. An absolute selfish waste of public money and time.
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Respectfully, cyclists will continue to use their bikes because it’s good form of exercise and we can’t always afford uber and transit. Removing bike lanes won’t keep cyclists off the road, it’ll just make things more dangerous for them.
This is a massive overreach of power as well as decision making without any evidence. This bill also makes the streets a more dangerous place for all. Keep these bike lanes and expand on them, our cities are for people not for cars.
Removing bike lanes from the proposed streets will not meaningfully ease traffic through Toronto. Traffic is not caused by cyclists (who might otherwise be driving cars and therefore exacerbating traffic) taking up less than a full lane's worth of space along Bloor or Yonge.
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These bike lanes are critical to ensuring Torontos progress as a world class city and to reducing our carbon footprint. Removing them would not only be a massive regression for our transportation options, but a colossal waste of taxpayer funds.
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I commute daily from the East End of Toronto downtown on my bike, and this proposal complicates my commute.
Before installing the lanes, the city did an assessment of impact - why are we revisiting? From everything I have seen, the lanes improve commute time, particularly to the hospitals.
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Please don’t remove all of these bike lanes. Bike lanes on bloor west i’m etobicoke don’t make sense. University lanes are fantastic. bloor street in the core could use some more however they provide lots of value.
I regularly commute down the bloor bike lanes. I will continue to do this with or without the bike lanes, since I actually have work to get done and don't have time to sit in traffic. In practice this means I'm just going to be biking down the center of whatever traffic lane they put in.
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