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Tell the City You've Had Enough With Bike Lane Congestion in Toronto

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Jennifer Ng
2 years ago

Keep Toronto Moving! Go biking on Harbord, remove bike lanes from College st

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Belinda Struminger
2 years ago

City traffic and lane reductions due to construction have made it IMPOSSIBLE to move throughout the city.

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Susan Carol Gray
2 years ago

Bike lanes on Bloor St. in The Kingsway and east/west of here have destroyed the beauty of our neighbourhood not to mention the traffic congestion for all

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Claudia Peichl
2 years ago Featured

Spending 20 minutes to drive 1.5 km on Bloor street is absolutely nuts! I'm burning more fossil fuels than before awhile poisoning the few bikers with carbon monoxide from the line up of idling cars. We no longer carpool with other parents for my kids sports because it takes SO LONG just to come by each other's houses.

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Anonymous
2 years ago

I agree that bike lanes have a role in the city but there needs to be balance. Given our lack of public transit for a city this size, many people have no choice but to drive to work. Also, maybe people have to drive for their jobs.

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Joanna
2 years ago

Our weather is not conducive for dedicated bike lanes. Let’s help smooth the traffic not congested further

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Douglas Cumming
2 years ago

Bike lanes don't belong on arterial roads. Congestion needs to be addressed as a priority.

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Anonymous
2 years ago Featured

Putting bike lanes on Avenue Rd when they’ve already destroyed Yonge St which is 1 km away is ridiculous. I support Keep Toronto Moving as I have to use Yonge St to my children’s school and it’s standstill traffic and the bike lanes are unused for a majority of the year

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Kevin Fuller
2 years ago

The congestion on major arterial roads must be remedied. The exhaust fumes alone are causing health issues in the surrounding neighbourhoods.

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Donna Waverchuck
2 years ago

Bike lanes on major arterial roads are causing dreadful daily congestion and raises the pollution levels in the affected neighbourhoods. This has to stop.

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Simeon Mitrev
2 years ago

Enough virtue-signaling and ideology-based decision-making! The hard working people of Toronto and surrounding communities DEMAND fact-driven, diligent, honest and TRANSPARENT decisions that DO NOT marginalize the working people in favour of others, and do NOT sow division and mistrust!

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Michael Dalton
2 years ago

I’ve had it with the sneaky imposition of bike lanes. It started with fake studies with cherry-picked data to show benefits to traffic flow and businesses, which proved to be ultimately false. But the agenda-driven politicians don’t care. It’s time for real representation, rather than the rolling out of some sneaky special interest agenda.

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Yasin
2 years ago

to cancel the Bike lane and trafic light at Davenport rd with Bartlett , will damage the living ability of the houses as lane cancel ed the only loading spots for these houses

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Scott Irvine
2 years ago

Block after block after block of bumper to bumper traffic with literally empty bike lanes make no sense, if this idea has so much merit - where are the users ?

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Anonymous
2 years ago

I just can't believe the amount of money spent on some of these - Bloor Steet West for example. I drive along there many days and since they have been put in I have seen no more than 20 bikes on them. Meanwhile how many motorists have been hugely inconvenienced plus sitting in cars adding more and more pollution and frustration to people trying to get on with their lives. Did we really need 2 bike lanes each side of Bayview extension? There are never bikes on there – well, maybe 1 or 2. I don’t see cars going away – as least not until people can fly. So lets try and be reasonable. Lets be realistic. It's a shame that as with so many things today - people have been silenced.

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John Wilson
2 years ago

If a mild winter such as we are now experiencing is any indication of bike lane use, it clearly shows severe under-usage. Where are all the cyclists? Such expense and total overhaul of major thoroughfares for such a small minority of residents is not justifiable by any reasonable measure. It clearly demonstrates a very irresponsible use of tax revenues when the city in under such dire pressures from so many other demands on funds. Why should a small cyclist lobby hold such influence over so many? Surely this whole mess will be rethought and better solutions found.

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Halyna
2 years ago

Bike lanes are a disaster. Businesses suffer, drivers are over frustrated. In one day I witnessed 2 bikers on the Islington to Royal York stretch. Taxpayers have spent millions to accommodate 2 bikers in a day. Total stupidity.

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Robert Fleischman
2 years ago Featured

Bloor Street has become a disaster with traffic backed up and idling, very few cyclists especially in winter and rainy weather. Traffic counts are not taken year round. Emergency vehicles are hindered. Can this be put to a vote whereby the local residents can express their opinion by referendum?

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Benjamin Rondel
2 years ago

The new bike lanes are seriously impacting businesses in the Bloor West village, there are a lot less parking spots.

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Anna Jarosz
2 years ago

Reducing major streets to 1 lane has caused so much congestion, driving in the city has become dreadful