People who use bikes have a right to use streets and be protected from cars. This bill is government overreach since it's the jurisdiction of municipalities not the provincial government.
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There are a number of things to say...
1/ Bike lanes are a municipal issue, not a provincial issue
2/ Every study shows that bike lanes actually
a) decrease traffic
b) increase spending at local stores
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This bill is at best misguided. Please don't waste resources removing infrastructure that is complete that gives people an option for a safe alternative to driving.
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This bill is a ridiculous overreach of provincial government authority. This is ironic given the provincial government calls itself conservative and claims to value things like the reduction of red tape and bureaucracy.
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I do not agree with this at all. Bike lanes are key to a healthy city and a healthy population. Biking is a great, healthy way to get around. I bike to work ever day along the Bloor and university bike lanes. I've started doing that because there are safe lanes that make me feel comfortable biking.
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This bill is incredibly strange. Why must the province approve every individual bike lane? Isn't this the city government of Toronto's job? This is a clear overreach of power, and will make traffic in Toronto measurably worse.
This seems to be a step backwards in both public safety and efficient transportation for all people of Ontario. We need better and more bike lanes and public transportation as opposed to the inefficient use of resources that a car dependent society has.
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The sections on Bloor St., Yonge St., and University Ave. have provincial importance and function.
The management and maintenance of these streets, and others, cannot be left only to elected regional and municipal leaders in the communities they are in.
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I do not support the provincial government trying to interfere with municipal bike lanes. Let cities handle their own bike infrastructure. There is no value in the province trying to change municipal infrastructure. Please stay out.
Removing bike lanes would be dangerous and deadly, and it would be especially dangerous and deadly if it were to happen on busy city streets like Bloor St., Yonge St. and University Ave. in Toronto (as Doug Ford has already stated he will do, against the will of Toronto’s City Council).
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I currently lived in the Annex and previously lived at Yonge and St. Clair when the Yonge bike lanes were implemented. I am a driver,pedestrian, and transit user and only use the bike lanes occasionally.
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The proposal is absurd, and seems to be entirely divorced from reality. I tried searching for studies showing that bike lanes are contributing to traffic congestion here, to see how much of a problem is being addressed, and instead found dozens of studies showing the exact opposite.
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I personally don't drive often anymore since the Yonge St and Bloor St bike lanes were installed, specifically their midtown and downtown sections. I have replaced most of my trips with Bike Share, year round.
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Bike lanes reduce gridlock because cyclists feel safe biking. You will be adding more drivers to the road if you remove bike lanes, and you will be endangering cyclists’ lives. Cyclists die because of cars, because of driver error, because cars don’t share the road properly. Removing bike lanes.
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The proposed amendment that will require the removal of bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University appears to be completely arbitrary in targeting certain infrastructure before any consideration of expert advice or evidence relating to those specific facilities.
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This is nonsense and a distraction from pressing provincial issues the Ford government is failing on (health care wait times come to mind!). Tearing up existing bike lanes will waste obscene amounts of taxpayer dollars that could be used to invest in things that could make our lives better.
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Keep our bike lanes!!
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