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Ontario is removing Bloor, Young and University bike lanes. (globalnews.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's happening, the worst mayor Toronto has ever had is removing three major recently completed bike lanes at tax payer expense. That's right, Ontario tax payers are footing the bill for Ford to meddle in Toronto municipal infrastructure. This is of course to distract us from failing healthcare and education while appealing to his mostly car centric base.

There is a protest happening Wed. 23rd of October, please come out if you can. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/rally-ride-for-road-safety-tickets-1045417761667

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope cyclists start riding together slowly in large groups in the middle of traffic lanes such that cars can't get around them, as they are legally entitled to do.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

They really should do this around Etobicoke/Ford leaning areas too...

Wearing signs that say, "Sorry to bother you, Doug Ford destroyed our bike lanes so we're stuck here with you".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope cyclists start riding together slowly in large groups in the middle of traffic lanes such that cars can’t get around them, as they are legally entitled to do.

It's a hilarious bit of irony, but the more I think about, the more it seems that just driving more would be the most effective way to exacerbate congestion.

At least that way, they can't blame cyclists. #maliciouscompliance

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

I appreciate the sentiment but I really don’t want to see a story on the news about some road rage asshole deciding to run over a bunch of cyclists. Your life is worth more than that! There are better ways to change things.

[+] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Not unless driverless cars somehow end up reducing trips made. Which seems unlikely!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

driverless cars would massively improve both congestion and parking (the other thing bike lanes interfere with) in cities.

I would agree that they could improve congestion on highways, but in cities? The congestion is there because a huge ass vehicle is being used by a single person x 1 million. Unless you're talking driverless buses :)

And if infrastructure isn't balanced, so it benefits ALL road users, and not just driverless cars, then it will cause more harm than good. City infrastructure that is balanced won't make cars go any faster than everyone else (in fact, it makes drivers take less direct paths to their destination!), so the only thing you might be solving is fewer crashes caused by negligent drivers.

So, indirectly, yes, they may help with congestion, but not for the reasons we'd assume.

We already have perfectly good examples of things working in other cities and countries. It's our (Government's) stubborn refusal to implement what we need that's causing these problems.