Will the government be setting additional funds aside for the health and safety costs of these changes? Removing safe biking infrastructure will make our roads more dangerous and congested with cars, which will increase deaths and serious injuries, straining our healthcare costs.
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Please do not remove the bike lanes as a resident of the City. They are very useful and the province should focus it's efforts on solving our actual problems.
Does the government have any global cities upon which they are modelling these changes? I've tried to find examples of other major cities around the world which are working to make transportation more expensive, more dangerous, and with fewer options, but couldn't find any examples.
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If the PC government is wanting to alleviate traffic congestion, the better course of action is to provide better funding and improve public transit. Making public transit faster, more reliable, and affordable will enable Ontario citizens to be less reliant of driving.
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I am strongly against the removal of bike lanes from the City of Toronto. There is no data to suggest that the removal of bike lanes will reduce congestion. If the goal is to reduce congestion, there are more effective options such as a congestion toll and better transit.
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Setting aside the evidence that dedicated bicycle lanes in and of themselves reduce congestion, and that bicycle use year-round is increasing, particularly as the climate changes, I, as a resident of the City of Toronto, do not support this as proposed because:
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This proposal is unsafe and will absolutely lead to more cycling deaths in the city of Toronto. The answer is not fewer bike lanes but more incentives for people to take alternative modes of transport (cycling, walking, public transit).
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I do not agree with this proposed legislation. Rather, we need governments to take steps to reduce car traffic in downtown areas of cities by making it easier for travellers to use public transportation, bikes and walking.
I am writing in because I am incredibly against bill 212. I believe that the province is severely overstepping their jurisdiction by enforcing their will about bike lanes on municipalities. The province does not have the right or the knowledge to assess where bike lanes should be installed.
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The experts on this topic overwhelmingly have found in their studies that bike lanes reduce traffic on streets they are implemented simply by taking cars off the road. Every bike, which is 1/10th the size of a car on the bike lane is one less car off the road.
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This is a truly idiotic Bill and a waste of everybody's time and effort.
Please use these funds and your time to invest in High Speed Rail instead.
This is what the people want. Not another highway or a tunnel or removing bike lanes.
High. Speed. Rail.
This is fiscally irresponsible. The city spent money putting these bike lanes in, you're going to spend money taking them out, and then more money will be spent in a few years to put them back in. What is this, a Soviet jobs program?
This might be the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard. We need MORE bike lanes not less. I use the Bloor bike lane almost everyday. This will only make traffic worse.
This is an irresponsible bill both in terms of democracy and public safety. This is a provincial over-reach to attempt to direct or remove municipal safety infrastructure designed to protect pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.
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Stop wasting everyone's time and our taxpayer money on bills such as these. It is unacceptable that you are meddling in issues that are the municipality's responsibility. If you want to help the city of Toronto with gridlock, educate yourselves on what is actually effective.
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I have been commuting to work along the danforth/bloor corridor for almost 15 years now. The increase in safety with the addition of the protected bike lanes is IMMENSE. And yet, even with the protected bike lanes it's sometimes dangerous! I would no continue to bike if the bike lanes were removed.
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Bike lanes are essential to the health of this city. By taking away bike lanes you are putting cyclists lives in danger in order to cut down on driving time.
Instead, leave the bike lanes, finish the LRT and build housing that is accessible to essential services by foot, TTC or bicycle.
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This is another example of a complete waste of taxpayer dollars from our current government.
Bike lanes keep bicyclists, pedestrians, and drivers safer - if one death or serious injury is prevented then they have paid for themselves as far as I am concerned.
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