Bike lanes improve safety. I don't worry about cars weaving around me and cars racing through the intersection because they can. I feel safer as a pedestrian and driver. The extra commute time on Bloor i small.
Doug Ford should not be weighing in on bike lanes in municipalities. Period.
Bike lanes save lives. All of the research shows this.
Gridlock is caused by more cars on the road.
Invest in transit to make it more accessible and attractive so that people rely on it.
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This is going to not help the traffic issue and become a barrier for so many people. Bike lanes are so important and need to be protected. As someone who does not own a car please know this will be detrimental!!
The restriction and removal of bike lanes in cities is counter productive. Business with bike lanes in front of them have increased business (as studies by the City of Toronto and other institutes have found).
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Leave bike lanes alone. It's a waste of taxpayer money to take out bike lanes that are already installed. I use them all the time and they make me feel much safer when I'm biking with my kids.
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I am a cyclist and a pedestrian. I live downtown. I use the bike lanes. I feel safer. More cars means more congestion. I get around faster. The bike lanes on University, Bloor and Yonge should be seen as part of the larger network to connect routes around the city. Look at the bigger picture.
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A 2019 city study found that 44 per cent of Torontonians bike in good weather to get to school, work, shop or visit friends. It also found 26 per cent of people bike for fun or fitness only, making 70 per cent of Torontonians cyclists in some capacity.
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I do not support the proposed legislation for two reasons:
1.Decisions about bike lanes and traffic should be made at a municipal level and not at a provincial level. I live in Ottawa and Toronto-based lawmakers do not have the required understanding of our city to make informed decisions.
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BikeShare Toronto is also seeing high demand. In 2015, the service recorded 665,000 trips. In September, its director said he expected more than six million trips by the end of 2024.
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In the University-Rosedale riding, which includes Bloor Street from Ossington Avenue to Mount Pleasant Road, University Avenue to Dundas Street W., as well as Yonge Street from Bloor Street to Dupont Street, about 8.3 per cent of people bike and 36 per cent drive, federal data shows.
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We need to expand bike lanes across Ontario and invest in transit. This is not good use of tax payers time and money! I want an end to grid lock through improvements in GO and other transit, this is such a WASTE OF TIME.
This is an absolutely absurd proposition--wasteful and a terrible misuse of public funds. Consider the cost of salaries to conceive, design and build the bike lanes, and the material resources that went into creating the bike lanes. This alone should be a reason to preserve them.
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Build more car lanes and there will be more cars. Build more bike lanes and there will be more bikes.
The bike lanes were just completed. Why aren't we taking the time to gather the data to see how many people use the bike lanes?
What's better for the city, the environment, people's health?
The Ontario government should not be seeking to add red tape and bureaucracy. Municipalities should be allowed to make decisions in the best interest of their citizens and the province should not interfere with those decisions.
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This is a good start, the special interest groups at the local level seem to have too much power. Here in Ottawa, bike lanes went up on a main aterial business street bank street and it has turned into a parking lot and the bike lane sits empty.
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Ripping out bike lanes on these major streets will not only make cyclists' commutes more difficult and dangerous, the construction work will make drivers way more angry and late than they claim to be now! This hasty proposal is being made without proper evidence or data.
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I hesitated as to whether to provide comment to this proposed law. I have never provided comment to anything like this in the past, but this proposal makes me so angry that I felt I had to say something.
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As a biker who regularly uses bike lanes in the city of Toronto to get around, this Bill will gravely impact my ability to safely navigate the city.
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