Removing bike lanes is only going to further increase the dangers of cycling without the safety of the lanes. Will taking back bike lanes alleviate traffic congestion with any kind of significance? This is a bandage solution to a problem that requires a body bag.
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I'm an active user of bike lanes, and ride over 2,000kms every year. This bill is against any action that I see as progressive and favorable to a sustainable, high-living standard, place to live.
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Having municipalities apply to an appointment, member of Parliament in order to have bicycle lanes approved is mountains of red tape that doesn’t need to happen.
Not everyone has the privilege of driving a car due to health reasons, age, or financial challenges.
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As a resident of the city of Toronto, a driver, cyclist and pedestrian, I’m devastated to be fighting to protect recently installed bike infrastructure.
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The bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University Avenue need to stay. There is ample data to show they do not significantly slow down vehicular traffic. And they give people a polution free way to commute.
Ripping up bike lanes is the most ridiculous motion I have heard for a long time. These bike lanes help the flow of people and have a minimal effect grid lock. Please reconsider. People’s lives depend on it.
Regarding Bill 212, I use the bike lanes in Toronto, and I want the bike lanes to be preserved and expanded. I have seen a large increase in the use of the bike lanes, and the use of the bixi rental bikes.
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We do NOT need bike lanes in a city where there is cold weather 5 months of the year. It is creating congestion along major arteries in Toronto. I don’t have a license or a car, I use the transit but these bike lane are making it difficult for buses to move in busy neighbourhoods.
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Removing bike lanes and denying or delaying new ones is ridiculous. Bike lanes lessen gridlock.
When I lived in Toronto and the Bloor St. lanes first went in there were days when there were more bikes than cars using the road.
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I use bike lanes including the bike lane on Yonge Street.
Cycling increases the amount of exercise that I get and decreases the likelihood of being hit by a car, both of which save the Ministry of Health money.
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Bike lanes are a necessary part of transit infrastructure. I do agree that keeping bike lanes on less busy roads is ideal and moving forward that should be a priority.
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Removing bike lanes is going back backwards.
2 things happen when you remove bike lanes:
1) bikes ride with cars on the road, slowing traffic as car move safely beside them. Or they don’t and accidents occur.
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What a disgraceful piece of legislation. Even the name of the bill is propaganda. Not everybody in Ontario drives a car. Some people are medically unable to drive. Such individuals may be able to ride a bike or walk.
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Bike lanes do not increase congestion. In most cases, they alleviate it. If there is a bike lane, more people will choose to ride bikes; if there is no bike lane, people who would have otherwise biked might choose to drive instead, putting more cars on the road. More car lanes cause more cars.
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Bill 212 is nothing but Doug Ford playing political games with people’s lives in the City of Toronto, which we all know he despises. I owned a small business at Jarvis and Adelaide for 35 years, up until this past February.
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The proposed legislation appears to promote the use of automobiles as a primary means of transportation to the potential detriment of others modes such as cycling.
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This is OUR city and it is NOT to the government of Ontario to decide what we do with our streets. We live here. Outsiders, such as Doug Ford, come with their SUV and other polluting cars.
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