This is municipal jurisdiction. What the provincial government is proposing is called overreach, that thing that this government is supposed to be against.
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This is a terrible piece of legislation that will have a regressive impact on transportation in the city. Bikes are an essential part of the future of transportation in this city. It is not wise to banish cyclists to confusing side streets away from major amenities.
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This proposal is the best thing I have seen by the provincial government in a long time. Why? Because it is bringing common sense to the municipal government of the City of Toronto where lately there is very little. I want bike lanes. I am a cyclist.
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This bill as proposed is an unjustified, cruel, and fruitless approach to traffic management which will endanger the lives of cyclists and pedestrians across the province.
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The only way to fight gridlock is to make alternative means of transportation viable. The government should focus on public ransit and active transportation. Removing bike lanes will not reduce grid lock, will get more cars on the street and increase congestion.
I love this idea, as an Etobicoke resident the bike lanes on Bloor and Eglington have absolutely destroyed the area and have added congestion at all hours of the day. No bikes are used and its time that Olivia Chow goes down. Ford all the way!
In a city with finite space, not everyone can drive and alternatives to driving are crucial to allow movement within the city. When we place moving *people* as the important metric to track (instead of cars), it becomes clear that a focus on cars is counterproductive.
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While I agree with the removal of bike lanes on major arteries like Bloor and Yonge, some lesser used major roads have good examples of co-existence between cyclists and motorists. Those being Richmond/Adelaide and Sherbourne. I hope those lanes can stay. Thank you.
This is an over reach of the province into municipal jurisdiction. Municipalities build road/cycling/multi-use pathway infrastructure around Transportation Master Plans that integrate many elements of moving people effectively.
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This proposal is such an egregious and disrespectful use of provincial power - that alone should prohibit it from being passed. On its merits, it is an awful and dishonest policy that will do nothing except increase congestion.
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I do not support this bill at all. I understand the intent is to improve traffic. However, bike lanes did not cause traffic. Traffic is caused by single occupant cars. As the city keeps growing, we can't just encourage everyone and their mother to drive a car.
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I use these bike lanes practically every day to get to places safely.
The argument is that bike lanes cause traffic congestion, when the evidence shows they do the opposite: decrease congestion by removing would-be drivers and passengers from the roads and putting them in the bike lane instead.
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Everyone knows this is just an attempt by Ford to finally get to be mayor of Toronto. It's doubtful that any such pressure will be put on other municipalities, because he doesn't know any others exist outside his Muskoka cottage.
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Tearing out bike lanes is absolutely insane.
We are in a climate emergency. We need MORE bike lanes, not destruction of what we currently have. Look at what other cities are doing and it is not this!
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I do not support extending provincial powers to remove or alter municipal plans about bike lanes. I live in the Little Portugal neighbourhood, and one of my most accessible forms of transportation is biking.
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The proposal to remove bike lanes works against all the environmental goals of the province and will be ineffective and expensive according to the majority or research on the subject.
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Doug Ford should stop trying to be the King of Toronto (he was already rejected by Torontonians) and focus on the severe issues Ontario is facing in: education, healthcare, housing crisis, cost of living crisis, transit (getting the eglinton LRT, Finch LRT, and Hurontario LRT open and running), fixi
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I am a person who has used most modes of transportation from walking, cycling, transit and the automobile. I currently use a multi-modal approach to get to where I'm going (car -> train -> walk).
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