I am totally opposed to the Ford government's initiative to remove/reduce bike lanes. These not only preserve the safety of cyclists, but encourage people to get out of their cars and travel by alternate means. Removing bike lanes and moving bikes onto back streets simply does NOT work.
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Bill 212 overlooks the serious issues causing gridlock in Toronto. These include construction of private developments and the construction of the Eglinton Line and the Ontario line by Metrolinx, the Ontario line being directed by the PC government.
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There's a number of reason's that this proposal doesn't make sense for Ontario. First, it's a huge overreach of the provincial government to interfere with municipal planning.
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I rely on these bike lanes every day. The new ones especially have made me feel considerably safer as I move around the city, and I would be pretty upset to see them destroyed.
The Bloor bike lane is always getting great use, and moving faster than the cars. You can walk faster than the cars are moving. An extra lane of traffic isn't going to fix that. It doesn't make any sense to remove them and it's a waste of city funds.
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Why do we always go one step forward and 2 steps back. Biking is a carbon friendly mode of transportation that is cheaper in the long run. Cities are about liability and car mobility. Improve public transit and encourage the use of the same.
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Bike lanes save lives. Bike lanes has been proven to relieve traffic and congestions, shortening time for emergency vehicles. The city knows what we need. We do not need more red tapes from the province to tell us how to build our roads.
This has to be one of the most outrageous and backwards, thinking issue that the Ford government could’ve pulled out of its backside. Bike lanes reduce traffic by increasing alternate methods of transportation.
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It is important that the city maintains multiple and safe modes of transportation. Bike lanes help reduce the number of vehicles on the road. This is particularly important in today’s world that most vehicles are large SUVs carrying just the driver.
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The bike lanes have been a vast improvement for transportation in Toronto. The number of people using bikes has vastly increased, and their safety is much less at risk where there are bike lanes, rather than roads where the bikes are in traffic lanes.
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Please keep the bike lanes in Toronto! I use them regularly to get around and they making biking feel so much safer. Please look to european cities with robust bike infrastructure for how to proceed - they don't make traffic worse.
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this proposal is a bad idea and will make traffic worse
source: numerous studies about adding "one more lane" to roads and removing a bike lane being bad for all traffic
People will die as a result of this. Traffic will not be lessened. This will create and stew more bad faith between cars and cyclists. This is terrible policy if what you care about is decreasing gridlock and improving safety for cyclists. Listen to the actual experts in this and do what is right.
This is the stupidest piece of legislation tabled within the past 150 years. Bikes cause congestion? Nobody in the Ford government is stupid enough to believe that, but they are banking on the idea that voters are just stupid enough to swallow it whole.
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This is a ridiculous proposal, especially for those of us living in downtown Toronto. The priority must be to return to mass, 'low volume' transportation. And by low volume, I mean physically low volume.
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I am opposed to the removal of bike lanes in the absence of an expert-led and data-based analysis of both the costs of bike lane removal and the costs and benefits of bike lanes and a transparent reporting process.
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If this bill is passed by the Doug Ford conservative government it will be one of the most backward looking bills this government will have implemented in not just doing nothing about the gridlock of traffic in the metropolitan area of Toronto but actually making it worse.
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