Toronto is far past the point that it is driveable. You can’t keep building population dense areas like City Place and Liberty Village and think that traffic will be the same it was 10-15 years ago.
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Bill 212 is an extremely antiquated approach to attempt to solve congestion.
There are many studies such as the ones in the URLs below that show expanding more highways will not solve congestion in the long term. In fact, it will make it worse.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58x8436d
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This proposal is both shortsighted and dangerous. It is also an incredible waste of tax payer money. We should be investing in green, sustainable city practices. World-class cities are not built for cars. World class cities are built for walking, cycling, and public transportation.
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This is obviously bad policy. Basically every congestion study shows that cars are the most inefficient form of transport - reduce traffic by reducing cars. It will only create more traffic and gridlock and push more cyclists onto the roads slowing cars.
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Why are you trying to force me to drive everywhere?
Don't you realize that spending billions on highways and making it harder for me to bike or take transit will just force me to be another car on the road, wasting everyone's time and money?
This is a gross misuse of provincial power. Bike lanes are a municipal issue and this appears to be nothing more than Ford trying to grab 905 votes.
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I strongly object to this proposal to review municipal bike lanes and specifically to remove bike lanes on Bloor, University and Yonge Streets. There is no evidence that removing bike lanes reduces congestion.
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I am writing to express my extreme displeasure with the proposed provincial legislation concerning bike lanes (in The Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024).
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I'm sorry - I just do not get how bike lanes reduce congestion. All I see is more and more cars, trucks etc sitting in traffic, barely moving, (increase of pollution just sitting there) while the bike lanes I drive by the most sit basically empty.
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The removal of bike lanes will not improve traffic conditions. Cyclists who use existing lanes will continue to bike through those areas. Removing cycling infrastructure will make cycling more dangerous by creating more points of conflict between drivers and cyclists.
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I both dive a car and ride a bike.
I have never been stuck in traffic while riding a bike.
Removing bike lanes and limiting the bike lane network expansion is such a flawed approach and will not fix the congestion issues in the GTA.
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This is a wasteful decision that will cost lives and fail in every single stated goal. There is literally absolutely zero research that supports this accomplishing anything that you claim it will. People will die and you will have blood on your hands.
Please please keep the Bloor bike lanes! I use them every day on my commute and with my kids and they have made it so much safer. I know they are not perfect, but the Bloor ones really do get a lot of use. Even if you could just keep them out to High Park or Runnymede that would be great.
Please do not remove bike lanes! We need streets to be more accessible to bikes not less! As a cyclist, my only option will now be to take up a full lane of traffic so that cars don’t pass me dangerously while I bring my kids to and from school.
The amount of space a bike line takes up compared to a single lane for cars is less than half, but can facilitate transportation for a much greater group of people.
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I bike constantly in summer and really love the new bike lanes. I own 2 cars, and as a car owner, I'd rather the bikers stay in their own lanes rather than take the road and slow down the traffic even more significantly.
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This proposal makes no sense. The provincial government shouldn't be wasting taxpayer dollars by adding red tape and bureaucracy around municipal issues. Bike infrastructure has rarely been proven to increase congestion and often proven to be neutral or positive in aleiving congestion.
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Bike lanes are essential infrastructure for a well functioning city centre with diverse transportation options. Removing bike lanes will not make anyone safer, and will not effectively solve gridlock in the city. We need to diversify transportation, not double down on car-centric roads.
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