I am strongly opposed to Bill 212. While it claims to improve transportation, it neglects the reality that 44% of Toronto residents are utility cyclists (City of Toronto, 2019). With the increasing costs of living, fewer and fewer people can afford to drive a car.
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the proposed changes to the highway traffic act would restrict the ability of a municipality to regulate the flow of traffic within a neighbourhood in their town/city, which deprives local citizens of a right to be heard at the local level about movement of traffic in their community.
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I don't support this Bill as I believe this change will be detrimental to traffic, increasing likelihood of accidents involving cyclists and vehicles and/ or pedestrians as, A) there could be confusion on the roads and sidewalks from cyclists having to ride alongside and against traffic flow on the
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Bike lanes are an essential part of the city. Any and ALL bike lanes offer accessibility to all Torontonians and visitors to the city. To remove any single bike line is to reinforce that one must be wealthy in order to travel the city freely and with ease.
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This is the stupidest most irresponsible waste of taxpayer money I can remember. You want to undo the work that has already been done and paid for, to go back in time and make everything worse? Look at the direction the other major world cities are going.
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As a person who cycles every day to work I would not feel safe cycling without bike lanes. They are so important to the safety of all cyclists and I am certain there will only be more deaths if they are removed.
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I love biking in Toronto. I love that I am not consuming fossil fuels. I love that. I am getting exercise. I love that I’m getting time in the great outdoors. I love that I get to take in the sighte and sounds of our city. I love that I don’t have to pay for car.
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The provincial government wasting tax dollars to rip out infrastructure that keeps myself and my community safe to prioritize their own wants over actual fact-based solutions to congestion is a disgusting overreach of power.
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Bill 212 will not reduce gridlock. Keep the bike lanes and encourage the downtown core to use transit or bikes to move quickly rather than driving. Why would you take away the bike lanes when the current condos being constructed have very limited car parking and the majority is bike parking.
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As a resident of Ontario, specifically the Greater Toronto Area, I am deeply concerned by Premier Ford's Bill 212 – Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act. It shows wanton disregard for the people of Ontario and the millions of tourists who visit Toronto every year.
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Having a separated bike lane keeps people safer, and encourages more folks to bike rather than drive, lowering traffic and greenhouse gases at the same time.
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As someone who cycles as my main form of transportation, I am deeply disappointed in this proposal. Science based research shows that the congestion is not related to the bike lanes.
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I write this as a Ford supporter and a concerned mother. While I myself predominantly commute by car, both of my sons use the Bloor bike lanes in their daily commute to school, and I am deeply concerned about the potential impact of Bill 212.
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It is quite frankly, unimaginable to me that in a year with this many deaths and injuries to cyclists that this government is taking such a regressive step. For a city that would like to be treated as world class, we are proving once again that we are in fact anything but.
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I oppose this Bill because it continues the practice that this government has established since it was first elected in 2018, which is to impose legislation or decisions on numerous and varied constituencies with neither collaboration, consultation nor transparency; for example, the legislation tha
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Bike lanes on busy streets are essential for the safety of cyclists and drivers. More people will be killed and it is an insult to taxpayers to pay to take them out.
I oppose Bill 212, the ripping up of bike lanes on Yonge, University and Bloor Avenue and the provinces interference with municipal transportation infrastructure that supports the livelihoods of their residents.
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I strongly disagree with the proposal to force municipalities to seek provincial approval for new bike lanes on municipal roads requiring removal of a traffic lane and for existing ones, where a traffic lane was removed. This creates unnecessary red tape and redundancies, wasting taxpayer dollars.
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