This bill is not supported by a cost vs benefit evaluation that includes reductiom of road safety for bicycle, pedestrian, and e-bike traffic. Decreasing travel times is not the only value metric. Getting there safely has to be included in the evaluation.
I support the bike lanes as they are an efficient, cheap, and effective way of getting around the city. I do not approve of removing the bike lanes.
Additionally, decisions on the bike lanes in the City of the Toronto should be made at the municipal level and NOT the provincial level.
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This bill is horrid and will take Ontario backwards in environmentally friendly infrastructure, assessments and many other items buried in this bill. This is not what Ontario is about and it should not be passed.
We need to make bicycle use more prevalent in our lives so that we can reduce our fossil fuel emissions. This is the most important reason. Bicycles will help us fight the climate crisis. Every cycling journey is an emissions free journey.
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I am beyond surprised that a supposedly progressive government would put its citizens at so much risk that it would demand that they share a lane of traffic with motor vehicles when on a bicycle.
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Is Toronto the only city in the world ripping out bike lanes? Well, apparently there's somewhere in Australia that wants to do the same, but otherwise cities all over the planet are investing in cycling infrastructure. Does Doug Ford know something no else knows? Hardly.
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Retroactively removing bike infrastructure is beyond a waste of $48 million in taxpayer money, it's a violent act that will inevitably lead to the preventable deaths of more cyclists and pedestrians. A much better use of this money would go into improving the criminally under-funded TTC.
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Due to my wife being diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year, we were driving from North York (Yonge & Sheppard area) to Princess Margaret Hospital frequently for visits and then daily after her stem cell transplant.
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE consult a transportation engineer ... your notion that more lanes reduces traffic has been proven wrong many many many many times.
I thought it was common knowledge now, then I remembered I'm writing to a group of nepo-morons.
Pls note that leading global cities such as London-UK, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Montreal are ADDING bike lanes - not taking them away. Our cities should be designed to enable various modes of transportation. And active transportation reduces carbon emissions while enabling riders' fitness.
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Using the University bike lanes has made my daily commute to/from work faster, safer, cheaper and more environmentally conscious. Reject bill 212 and keep our bike lanes.
Please respect the space rights of ALL users in T.O. There are MANY who depend on the bike lanes for *safe* transportation through the city. Please do not remove the bike lanes that have already been installed!
Premier Ford, I appreciated your leadership and compassion during the pandemic which earned you my vote. A reduction in bike lanes for our city is not a solution but a political stunt which has lost you my vote.
Bill 212 is bad legislation and includes many clauses about Hwy 413 another bad idea.
This is a government that does things that don't need doing while ignoring the many things that do need doing.
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There are no bicycle lanes along St.Clair West and, due to elevated streetcar lanes in the middle of the street and parking lane, there is a single lane to be used by cars.
!!! Emergency vehicles often have to use streetcar lanes in order to get to their destination !!!
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First, the province should not be rescinding decisions made by another level of government - especially without any clear evidence that their own decision is correct. This is blatant misuse of taxpayer money.
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