Not only is this proposal seem like a HUGE overreach for the province to attempt to police municipal roads, but it goes against all the transportation planning policy and goals of the Province and as a transportation engineering professional I am appalled.
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Bike lanes won’t cause gridlock. Bike lanes promotes active transportation and converts short trips from car to cycling, which helps with gridlock.
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This bill will achieve the exact opposite of its name. Removing bike lanes will only make gridlock worse. Traffic is to be solved by REMOVING cars off the road by providing other options such as reliable transit and safe access to bike lanes.
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I am concerned that this bill makes it more difficult for municipalities to develop bike lanes. As I'm sure you know, biking is much more environmentally friendly than driving cars. Biking also reduces traffic, as it take more cars off the road.
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Hello. Bikes are much smaller than cars and safe and well marked lanes move all traffic. There is infrastructure on major routes including Yonge and Bloor for mass transit which moves far more people than cars. I am strongly against this proposed provincial action.
The proposal to strip urban voters of more of their political rights by allowing the premier and his minister of transportation to decide where bike lanes are going to be placed, or have already been placed is a horrendous piece of public policy.
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if you hate gridlock you should love bike lanes! each time a motorist decides to cycle they free up space for you and your commute. fewer bike lanes means more cars on the road. more emissions. more inching past each intersection as you grow older…
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This bill does not appear to be evidence-based at all. Removing bike lanes that are already built is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Gridlock goes down when less people drive cars, which means that the best solution for gridlock is to make other modes of transportation viable and convenient.
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What a horrible idea. Every single time traffic throughput is studied, the outcome is clear. To reduce traffic alternatives to driving exist. Removing bike lanes would sacrifice the safety of cyclists to make the driving commute worse.
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This proposed legislation lacks both academic and common sense.
Countless studies show that bike lanes reduce traffic congestion and that widening roads just lead to more cars and more traffic. You are just taking bikers out of the bike lanes and forcing them into cars to add to the traffic.
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I bike everyday to work. I have a car and prefer to bike because it is faster, healthier, better for the environment, and more enjoyable. I use bike lanes, where they are available, to stay safe. It would be in nobody's interest for me to start driving to work.
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The Ontario Government's proposal to impose provincial approval on municipal bike lanes is an absurd overreach and a blatant attempt to maintain car dominance at the expense of common sense.
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This proposal is, in short, utterly nonsensical. It fails to take into account the simplest axiom of traffic planning: traffic is fundamentally a problem of too many cars.
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It's an overreach of provincial government to get involved in municipal bike lanes. Stop interfering.
And bike lanes take cars off the roads. Increase safety. Keep people healthy.
Increase transit if you want to move people without traffic jams.
There's a desperately needed bike lane coming to my busy street: sidewalks aren't safe for pedestrians in Brampton.
There are so many bicycles and e-bikes flying down the sidewalks, brushing past us without warning, it's dangerous and scary.
Why on earth do you want to remove bike lanes?
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This will lead to deaths. Deaths. All for the premiers commute. This is not based on any facts. Not based on best practices. Purely vindictive. Embarassing. We have enough issues that need to be actually tackled not micromanaging of municipal affairs. Shameful
The streets of Toronto are becoming too heavily congested which is leading to an influx of traffic within the city. Creating more bike lanes would help lots of city commuters and make it safer to ride the streets, causing less accidents. Not to mention, this will provide less air pollution.
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This is an irrationale proposal. This is massive government overreach and overstepping from a government that claims to be about "small government".
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I am an urban planner and municipal lawyer who works and lives in Toronto. I regularly interact with both city and provincial policy frameworks and administrative branches in my daily work. I have great respect for both local and provincial autonomy and authority.
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