Additional vehicles and facilities for more cars is the antithesis of reducing gridlock. This will only add more cars to the road rather than get people using cars less.
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November 19, 2024
Hon. Prabmeet Sarkaria
Minister of Transportation
5th Floor – 777 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M7A 1Z8
Dear Minister Sarkaria,
RE: ERO 019-9266 – Bill 212, Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 – Framework for bike lanes that require removal of a traffic lane
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The city of Toronto should focus on removing vehicular traffic from the downtown core rather than increasing the amount of vehicles that exist in the downtown core.
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I oppose Bill 212 on three grounds
- Overreach; we trust our city and town governments to handle local roads and infrastructure.
- Waste of the people's money; our tax money was spent building infrastructure and I don't like the province committing to spend again to change it
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Bike lanes save lives! We cannot remove them. One of the bike lanes that is proposed to be removed (Bloor/Danforth) is one I use every single day twice a day.
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PM Justin Trudeau needs to step in and tell Doug Ford to worry about provincial issues, and let the city elected officials run the cities that their citizens have elected them to run.
I am appalled that the Government of Ontario has chosen this path of ignoring responsibility to providing more safe multi-modal transportation options to people who cannot afford to drive regularly, or who want to move minimize their environmental impact, or who just want a healthy and fun way to st
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Bike lanes are a critical piece of infrastructure in the city, which contributes to safety, general health levels in the population, decarbonisation of our transports, and, yes, decongestion.
I urge you to reject Bill 212.
Bill 212 makes the streets less safe and is an inefficient use of taxpayer dollars. It will cost more to remove bike lanes than it did to add them. There are more important issues in Ontario, such as improving healthcare.
I am a pedestrian myself....not a driver or a cyclist who fully supports the removal of bike lanes but not just on Bloor, Yonge and University but on Cummer Avenue and both Eglinton Avenue East and Eglinton Avenue West.
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I live in Bloor West Village. The bike lanes are a disaster. Our roads are too narrow to have bike lanes on both sides of the street with lanes of parking on both sides as well. There are very few bicycle riders in the stretch between Runnymede and Jane.
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I am incredibly disheartened and disappointed with this Bill. The removal of currently installed bike lanes will NOT improve what is at the heart of gridlock and will only serve to make the roads more dangerous for cyclists who are, in fact, helping to reduce air pollution AND traffic.
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Do not remove bike lane!
Please add more bike lanes. The city needs it, we need it. Let us have a walkable, bikable city. Let’s not be a machine factory!
This bill is going to kill people. Toronto’s network of protected bike lanes has enabled more people than ever before to commute, shop, work, and go out at night by bike.
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I’ve seen about 6 riders using the Bloor bike lanes since they were completed.
It makes driving and parking dangerous.
It is entirely negative, except for the 6 aforementioned cyclists.
I have previously commented on my opposition to Bill 212, but that was before the update of October 31, 2024 where the framework would require the province to remove sections of the Bloor Street, Yonge Street, and University Avenue bike lanes in the City of Toronto and return them to a lane of traff
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It is incredibly short sighted to be investing in cars in urban spaces. Cities are for people, not cars. We need more bike lanes, more public transit and less cars in our urban environments.
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