Why bike lanes should remain on Ontario’s roads.
Efforts to remove bike lanes in Toronto could result in more injuries and make transportation more challenging for people.
Supporters of such moves argue that bike lanes worsen traffic congestion, negatively impact local businesses and delay emergency vehicles from getting where they need to go.
They are wrong on all points, as proven time and time again. Why are we still listening to these liars?
The fact remains that the most traffic you'll see on any road, just happen to be roads without cycling infrastructure.
If 18 lanes of highway still can't solve congestion, then the Ontario government should look at how to remove cars from those roads, instead of inducing further demand.
Wait, how do “bike lanes worsen traffic congestion”?
A permanent, predictable bike lane doesn’t impact traffic nearly as much as random cars parked on the street (everyone in the lane has to move over), but these people never complain about too much street parking.
I think their claim is that bike lanes mean that you’re permanently blocking that parking lane off so you can’t have 2 lanes instead of 1, or forgetting that the second lane is normally parking spaces. I think my favorite bit of all of this is all the videos of bike lanes without stop and go bikes where drivers record and say “no one’s using them!”
There’s pretty solid research about these things from the past 30 years or so. At this point, ignoring literature is just rank anti-intellectualism.
Good luck, sounds like you’re going to need it.
They don't
As an e-scooter and bike user I don't get the push to limit bike lanes. The problem is on car congestion so the solution should be car-based.
Yeah, I switched to bicycle for a guaranteed 30-35 min commute each day. Just flew passed traffic and the bikeways were heavily used the closer you got to the city and all the networks merge into major arteries. So fast, so healthy, got time back in my day too.
Some days I'd sit in my car for 90 mins, just to travel 13 km. Gd I was dumb... The fuel, the lost time, the wear on the car, just losing every way by choice lol
I'm in my disturbingly late 40s and I can still run more than 15k in 90 minutes. But I wouldn't want to run back.