This is such a backwards law! Ontario was finally moving in the right direction to try to catch up with other developed countries. Bike lanes are necessary! They reduce gridlock, are good for business and are good for personal health.
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1. The province should not be interfering with the city of Toronto’s decisions on how to manage traffic especially when considering Toronto spent their budget to construct the lanes. The city of Toronto’s planning and budget is also spent on alternatives to cycling - including transit.
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It is critical that municipalities have the ability to take action that will help the people living in their boundaries. This proposal from the provincial government is overreach and has negative consequences for basic governance.
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I think that this proposal is a move in the wrong direction. In order to combat gridlock and climate change Toronto, and Ontario in general, should be promoting and creating more bike lanes. Not removing existing ones.
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The Government of Ontario (GoO)'s plan to remove bike lanes in Toronto, ostensibly in the name of improving traffic flow, is shortsighted and wasteful.
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I am a cyclist and a pedestrian, and I live in downtown Toronto. I’m strongly opposed to this bill. There is no research showing that bike lanes cause gridlock. There is ample research showing that adding car lanes causes more gridlock.
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Getting rid of bike lanes or making them harder to build will only remove transportation options for people. Please don't do this, as it will make many people's lives (including mine) who rely on bikes to get around a lot harder.
The act could also be renamed "Shortening people’s lives and raising the burden on the healthcare system."
Here are my takeaways:
- As motor vehicles exhaust fine air particles which are known toxicants by the World Health Organization.
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Bike lanes are an important aspect of transitioning to a green climate! Whether or not there are bike lanes, there will still be cyclists. I'm sick of Toronto making headlines because of the number of cyclists who are KILLED due to a lack of safe infrastructure.
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The amendment to remove bike lanes in Toronto and to require provincial review of new bike lanes across Ontario is a mistake. There is no legitimate evidence (Provincially, Federally or even Globally) that proves adding bike lanes decreases traffic flow.
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As many of us living in Toronto, I have many concerns with the new Bill 212, Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act. Just to list a few:
Once again, the provincial government overstepping in municipal matters.
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There are a few problems with this bill. The climate emergency is getting worse and we need to work toward lowering emissions. That means we need to work to increase choices for travel. That includes making it safe to travel by bicycle.
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Not everyone can afford or has access to a vehicle. Bike lanes provide options for freedom of movement. Bike lanes make travel more equitable. I don't understand why you want to make our transportation system less equitable.
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Strongly disagree with this bill. Let's not move backward in making Toronto a bike friendly city, we need more infrastructure not to remove what we've built.
Bike Lanes on Bloor have caused
- Increased Travel Times
- More traffic on side streets
- More traffic on Dundas Street West as people avoid Bloor
- Slower traffic and more pollution for the environment as cars sit idling in traffic
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There is no need to rip up these newly built bike lanes to add more gridlock traffic. Money should be invested into our crumbling transit system and fixing the infrastructure we currently have. Another Doug ford money pit.
Bike lanes only help to reduce road traffic. What do you think people will do if they can’t bike from place to place? They get into cars.
Stop letting Doug ruin the city with his nonsense policies.
Bike Lanes on Bloor have caused
- Increased Travel Times
- More traffic on side streets
- More traffic on Dundas Street West as people avoid Bloor
- Slower traffic and more pollution for the environment as cars sit idling in traffic
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