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Name: Scott Chandler on Feb 26, 2010Comments: Cycling for the purposes of transportation through the city should be accommodated on the existing road network. Let's keep the limited park green space open for recreation and slower activities. Let's not cut through our playground and farmer's market with bike highways.Flag
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Name: Bryan Leblanc on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Leila Cools on Feb 26, 2010Comments: I strongly support an aggressive expansion of safe bike-ways in Toronto, but not at the expense of the safety of pedestrians, young and old! Please rethink this.Flag
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Name: Gene Threndyle on Feb 26, 2010Comments: As they say in Dufferin Grove, If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Why should we vote for people who don't care what we think or want?Flag
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Name: Gail Wolfenden on Feb 26, 2010Comments: Do not pave our park.... we need the greenspace for our children and adults to enjoy without having to worry about a bike freeway. Thank you.Flag
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Name: Jenna Hofbauer on Feb 26, 2010Comments: In the past, even with the existing paths in the park, me, my dog and my granddaughter were nearly run down by careless bicyclists. I support cycling and have cycled to work in the past, but a park, especially one as highly used as Trinity-Bellwoods, is not a place for a bicycle path.Flag
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Name: Patricia Cavanagh on Feb 26, 2010Comments: I believe we need safe bikeways on the roads, not through a downtown park like this one.Flag
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Name: Paula Bowley on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Kristin Jones on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 26, 2010Comments: We need to slow the traffic through the park as there are already hazards between playground usage and bikes - not enable faster, increased bike traffic.Flag
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Name: George Sawision on Feb 26, 2010Comments: parks are for people and the more green the better.We can realize a better use for our parks by ensuring that a slow pace of use is realized.Paths for walking are a wonderful addition but bike use in parks should be limited.Bikes are still vehicles and as such should be secondary to pedestrian use.Many individuals no longer use the park because of fears of being hit by a bike.Let's just make the right decision on this one.Flag
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Name: Barbara Schmidt on Feb 26, 2010Comments: Bikes use the park as a thoroughfare now. I cannot imagine how a bike path would be safe. Bicycles are silent and I find that I do not use the paths that exist now as I am afraid of being injured by a bicycle from behind.Flag
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Name: Paul Petro on Feb 26, 2010Comments: I ride my bike through the park every day. I live around the corner from it. I'm not lacking for route options as I pedal through the park. Please plant more trees or introduce other plantings. No more pavement.Flag
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Name: David Pond on Feb 26, 2010Comments: I am strongly opposed to any further reductions in the greenspace in Trinity-Bellwoods Park. If anything, the existing asphalt should be reduced. In my 18 years living near the Park, I have seen innumerable near collisions between bicyclists and pedestrians in the Park. (And I might add many of the bicyclists, when challenged, appear to have a strong sense of entitlement to speeding around the Park dodging pedestrians & children). Please stand up to the bicycle lobby and do the right thing--don't pave over our Park.Flag
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Name: Amanda Klein on Feb 26, 2010Comments: We want our cities to encourage bike travel because it discourages activities that harm the environment (i.e. use of motor vehicles) and encourages citizens to adopt personal measures to protect the environment. Parks are crucial sources of natural environment in urban settings and the greenery performs a number of valuable functions such as cleaning the air (not to mention their aesthetic and social value to communities). Paving over parks to make way for bike lanes fails to discourage activities that harm the environment as well as does little to encourage people to protect the environment (destroying existing park lands arguably has a net negative environmental impact). Moreover, people are only going to change their behaviour voluntarily if it's easier than not. Most people are not going to stop driving their cars just because there are bike lanes. To be an effective method of encouraging changes in behaviour, bike lanes need to replace car lanes so that driving becomes a more inconvenient method of travel.Flag
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Name: Matthew Church on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Nicola Hives on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Mathew Hupfied on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jenn Sorrell on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Caralea Thomson on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anna Hill on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: David Eddie on Feb 26, 2010Comments: I am absolutely opposed to this misguided proposal. I am an avid cyclist myself-- summer and winter, I don't even have a driver's licence-- but I do not believe bicycles belong in parks. They are fast-moving vehicles and belong on the road. A park is like a sidewalk, only more so, if you follow that statement. I have seen two dogs and a toddler hit by bikes in my time. Luckily the bike that hit the toddler was moving slowly but one of these days someone is going to be seriously injured, the way these cyclists (especially the morning commuters) bomb through the park. This proposal is more bureaucratic tomfoolery. They were headed in the right direction posting signs warning cyclists to slow down. Why not ban bikes altogether from Trinity Bellwoods (next to which I have been a resident for 15 years)? Bikes might work in a suburban park, but not this one. Thank you.Flag
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Name: Erin Elliott on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Donna Diakun on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Emma Traynor on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Becky Idems on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Dustin Stokes on Feb 26, 2010Comments: This would be remarkably poor city planning, in a city already rampant with poor planning. Please don't let this plan go forward.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Joshua Shang on Feb 26, 2010Comments: I believe a natural, more porous material should be used. Furthermore, an alternative 'high speed' bike lane around the park should also be provided From a biker's perspective, going on a 'multi-use' trail is the same thing as riding on the sidewalk. I would like the option of taking 'scenic' route through the park, but also a more functional route. Perhaps across dundas and down gorvale. thanks!Flag
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Name: Susan J Mackay on Feb 26, 2010Comments: Creating a transportation thruway through an already over used park is unacceptable. The City of Toronto must follow the lead of major cities around the globe and institute DEDICATED cycle lanes to make this city, safer, (more cyclists will use dedicated bike lanes), cleaner and more friendly. 70% of the roads in Berlin have dedicated bike lanes and have had for many years. We are in the dark ages in TO, it's time for the city to lay down some big bucks for bikes!Flag
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Name: Inger Whist on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Melissa Yu on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jessica Wilson on Feb 27, 2010Comments: Placing commuter bike lanes through Trinity-Bellwoods park is a terrible idea for (at least) four reasons. First, in trying to make Toronto a greener and more bike-friendly city the last thing we should be doing is paving over our green space---especially in one of downtown's most beautiful and treasured parks! Second, the presence of large numbers of fast-traveling commuter bikes and scooters will degrade the serenity of the park. Third and perhaps most importantly, the proposed commuter bike artery will degrade either the safety or the beauty, of the park. As anyone who has ever biked through T-B park knows, little kids and dogs are invariably bobbling and careening into the pathways. How is this fact supposed to be reconciled with the presence of commuting bikers rushing to work? If the proposed lanes do not have barriers, then the presence of large numbers of fast-moving bikes and scooters will be incredibly dangerous. If the proposed lanes do have barriers, that will be an eyesore, effectively defacing our park. Summing up: commuter bike lanes will degrade the serenity, and either the safety or the beauty, of the park. Third and finally, in order to get people out of their cars and onto their bikes the city needs to get serious about discouraging driving by putting in real bike lanes. Rather than force park-goers to share their little bit of serene green space with a major transportation bike artery, the city should be forcing cars to share the road!Flag
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Name: Alice Cavanagh on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Kristen Sharpe on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Daniel Gatto on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anthony Waterman on Feb 27, 2010Comments: When did park lands become subject to creating arbitrary laneways? This is a city with far too many roads as it is. Making another by sacrificing public park space speaks volumes as to the Department of Parks and Recreation's commitment to green policies. When did park space for public enjoyment become secondary to automobile corridors?Flag
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Name: Krisanne Langille on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Djanka Gajdel on Feb 27, 2010Comments: We certainly don't need any increase in paved surfaces in the park. That's why it's called a park.Flag
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Name: Hala Chaoui on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Stuart Murray on Feb 27, 2010Comments: Don't pave our park!!Flag
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Name: Francis Syms on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Pete Dako on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Mary Ledwell on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Peter Arseneau on Feb 27, 2010Comments: keep our parks greenFlag
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Name: Patricia Arseneau on Feb 27, 2010Comments: I think the west end bike-way is really very important but creating a nice smooth, wide - read fast - path for bikes past the playground, covering up more grass, taking the space under shade tress where we usually sit on blankets, is not the way to do it.Flag
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Name: Deb Scorsone on Feb 27, 2010Comments: Green space is a defining feature of Toronto's urban legacy.Flag
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Name: Glen Laubman on Feb 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Cheryl Johnston on Feb 28, 2010Comments:Flag