Doug Ford’s budget will target more Toronto bike lanes
Sources say the budget will include the removal of the bike lanes on Queen's Park Crescent and on Avenue Road south of Davenport.
They are planning to remove bike lanes from these streets:
The first 3 were already proposed last year, but a provincial judge temporarily blocked it. This year they've proposed removal from two more streets.
Removing bike lanes from Uni Ave is criminal. It is used by many students. So sad.
Thanks for listing it all out!
It is used by just as many healthcare workers too who were the primary driver behind getting them built. Mount Sinai Hospital and Sick Kids strongly opposed Bill 212. It will clog the roads with car traffic and those who continue to cycle will be in danger.
The ones on Bloor west of Runnymede at least made some sense because of the loud minority in Etobicoke who hated them. The rest have been around longer, and I don't see what votes he's winning by doing it.
Agreesd, Ford is going to push lots of Toronto even further away from the cons with this move. It only pleases the outer suburbs, even though it worsens their commute by forcing more people to drive and add to the car traffic.
The loud minority was shooting Bloor West in the foot. The Bloor West BIA used to oppose bike lanes until they changed their minds after they went in and saw the positive impacts. They are now defending them, backed by several economic impact studies which found that 90% of customers arrived by foot, bicycle, or transit. This is consistent with similar situations around the world.
Turning the bike lane back into roadside parking and short sections of car lanes before the next chokepoint will be bad for business and cost lives.
