I am very worried about this. Cycle lanes are a proven net positive: they reduce emissions, increase traffic safety for all, and make very little different to commute times for drivers and improve commute times for everyone else.
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This is what I wrote - feel free to grab what you want from it and use it as your own!
Hello!
I support bike lines.
We know from evidence that bike lanes help to:
- reduce gridlock
- reduce greenhouse gases
- get people moving faster
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In 2023, there was only one cyclist death recorded in the city of Toronto. In 2024, we have already had 6 and the year is not even over. We as a province should be finding ways to make cycling MORE safe in cities not less.
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The Provincial government has no business interfering in Municipal policy. I strongly believe your government has no legal right to start ripping out bike lanes implemented and installed by our Municipal government. We are citizens of the city.
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Bike lanes save lives! Toronto in particular is in desperate need of more bike lanes, as well as public transit. Safety of human life should not be disregarded for the sake of a 3 minute shorter car commute.
It's extremely disappointing to see the Premiere and their ministers devoting so much time to issues which are better handled by municipal governments.
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This proposal is insanity. Traffic got bad after covid because suburban commuters stopped taking the GO train. Why don't you do one good thing in your career and make a fact based decision.
This is a terrible idea. This will not save time and is a complete waste of tax dollars. Doug Ford is not the mayor of Toronto and should not decide local issues on local streets.
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The proposed legislation seems to aim to increase gridlock. Some people who currently get around by bike will be forced into cars resulting in more cars on the road and more gridlock. How are legislators still confused by this?
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Hello,
I am submitting feedback regarding Bill 212. I completely disagree with the premise that the provincial government would have oversight on new bike lanes being built, regardless if they remove a lane of car traffic or not. That planning belongs to cities and their municipal governments.
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I use bike lanes daily. They have protected me from aggressive drivers and prevented me from getting into accidents with pedestrians who focus on their phones and are wearing earbuds that stop them from hearing my bell.
Thousands of other people use bike lanes daily, in all weather conditions.
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Bike lanes should not trump traffic lanes. Most bicyclists I encounter do not stop at red lights, weave in and out of traffic and cut people off. If they followed the rules that drivers have to, it wouldn’t be so bad sharing a road. Why aren’t cops ticketing them when they run a red light?
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This is awful. If you want to free up space for drivers and reduce traffic, we need more bike lanes, not fewer. People who choose to cycle rather than drive take up much less than cars. Bike lanes encourage far more people to do so. When we’re forced to drive, traffic goes up!
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This bill is a travesty. Bike lanes make roads safer for everyone using them. I live in Toronto and work in Etobicoke and use the bloor bike lane every day to commute to work.
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Bike lanes have been show to have a positive impact on traffic reduction because when biking is safe (bike lanes are present) more people see this as a viable mode of transit.
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I disagree vociferously with this proposal- as it puts the onus on municipalities to provide data on location by location decisions - where the province itself does not have data informing its policy objectives.
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PLEASE do not remove the bike lanes! We went through months and months of construction traffic to get these in, please don't make all this money and time for nothing.
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