This is not only a waste of time and money, but also harmful to the residents of downtown Toronto. I live beside the Bloor bike lanes and see as many or more people cycling than driving, and enjoy the vibrancy of cyclists passing by at reasonable speeds rather than cars whizzing by noisily.
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completely ridiculous proposal. bike lanes don't increase traffic, the city has already proved this. Stay in your lane Doug ford, no pun intended.
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Do not do this. Toronto has been congested for as long as I can remember, even before bike lanes. Removing them will do nothing to help traffic. There is countless data to support that.
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Deeply shortsighted. I live in Waterloo, ON and sometimes visit Toronto with my bike. As a grad student, I get around everywhere with my bike - I commute to work/campus, I bike to the grocery store and bring my weekly groceries home in my basket, etc.
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Crazy that Doug Ford is going to rip up Toronto bike lanes just at the network is starting to be useful and used more and more. Stop to trying to interfere with the city
Why does this bill scrap the environmental assessment of the highway?
Why does this government feel it doesn’t need to follow the rules of governments last?
Please keep the bike lanes. Scraping them would take us backwards and undo years of planning. Be respectful to the safety of bikers.
It is really unfortunate that the Premier seems hell bent on adding more congestion to the city of Toronto. When you provide people with viable alternatives to driving they will use those instead and that means there are less cars on the road and less gridlock.
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Bike lanes are fundamental infrastructure for getting around Toronto.
The lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University have made it significantly easier and safer to get around.
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As someone who relies on biking and our city’s bike lane infrastructure to commute daily, the proposal to remove bike lanes feels like a step backward. Biking is not only a sustainable choice but a necessity for people like me who depend on safe, reliable bike routes to get around.
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2% of the population use bike to commute vs 60% of people that use cars.
Now compare how many kilometers of bike lanes we have vs the amount of km cars get in the entire city.
Percentage wise compared to the infrastructure present, people use bike lanes allot more.
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As someone who has grown up in Toronto, I am very familiar with the city's car-centric culture and long-standing resistance to adapt its transportation culture to provide efficient and safe routes for users of all transportation modes.
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Yonge street is no longer Highway 11 and Bloor is no longer Highway 5. That decision was made in the 90's: control of these streets was downloaded to the municipalities. As such, it has been municipal tax dollars and municipal decisions that have developed these streets to their current state.
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Bike lanes are important in Ontario and across the world for many reasons:
- they make roadways safe for everyone, including drivers, cyclists, and in many cases pedestrians as well
- they allow citizens of Ontario the freedom to choose how they want to get around
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Removing bikes lanes is a terrible idea. I actually live here and I drive and bike in the city on a mostly daily basis. Bike lanes make both more pleasant and safe. The predictability is amazing. I preferentially drive on roads with bike lanes because it’s a better experience as a driver.
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Bike lanes are crucial for cities in order to give people a safe alternative to driving in the city. Where Doug Ford wants to remove bike lanes are corridors with subways underneath. Why is the objective to speed up the movement of vehicles and not the movement of people.
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We/Toronto/people/communities need the current bike lanes of which we should be so proud. Although initially they took some getting used to, and learning new rules of safety, they are now an essential part of our communities and have increased safety for all.
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Respectfully, I am strongly against such an action, as I rely on the aforementioned bike corridors for my commute, and it would be an absolute travesty to reverse current progress on developing the streetscapes to be more accommodating to individuals who live in the city and do not wish to travel by
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The extent to which the provincial government is determined to spend my provincial tax dollars to dictate municipal policy on behalf of single-digit anecdotes from people who don't live in downtown Toronto is absurd.
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This is one of the most stupid things that I've seen the Government of Ontario propose to do (and the current Government has done a lot of stupid things).
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