🚴 Why Are Bike Lanes So Controversial? Doug Ford’s Push to Remove Toronto’s Bike Lanes Explained!
Bike lanes are essential for building sustainable, efficient cities, but Ontario’s Premier, Doug Ford, has stirred up controversy with recent comments about removing bike lanes in Toronto. 🚲 This video breaks down the importance of bike lanes and the impact of Doug Ford’s proposal on Toronto’s streets, traffic, and public safety.
Join us as we explore:
🌍 Why bike lanes matter for safer, cleaner, and more connected cities
💡 The surprising benefits of bike lanes—from reducing traffic congestion to boosting local businesses
💥 The potential consequences of losing Toronto’s bike lanes on community health and city life
Is removing bike lanes a step backward for urban development and sustainable transportation? Or are there other perspectives at play? Let’s dig into what this decision could mean for Toronto’s future and the broader urban planning landscape.
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while you’re down here might as well scroll back up and like the video 👆
I say they are not really necessary. If you are too fearful to be out in the main road with the traffic
you should not be on the road in the first place! The space should be multi use. What makes me mad
is having parking out in the middle of the street. Traffic and bike lanes, but NO on street parking!
Could Ontario BAN Bike Lanes ? Here, Title fix ! Doug Ford ain't the Prime Minister of Canada ! He is the Premier of Ontario !
This video should not exist, stupidity is king in Ontario. Car culture is the reason why health system is obese.
Bike lanes are the future (in better places they're the present), and the new ones Doug plans on ripping out will go right back in in a few years. But he's happy to waste tax dollars and put more cars on the road.
Toronto was not designed with bike lanes in mind . . it makes street crossing dangerous for pedestrians . . they do not follow traffic laws.
Life-line that services 1.2% of Toronto commuters and removes lanes from arterial roads used by 70% of commuters. 🤣
1) Cyclists don't have to ride on arterial roads. Bring Uni back to 3 lanes in each direction at 60km, and cyclists can ride in a bike lane on St. George.
2) Cyclists don't have to exercise in traffic, during rush hour. There are lots of bike paths that aren't part of the road system and way safer.
3) Cyclists can buy a Presto pass…it's way safer than riding in traffic.
It's about time somebody brought some common sense to Toronto…way too many activists on city council.