[evandyk]

A bus lane too. Traffic nightmare!

 

[Admiral Beez]

I wish Queens Park and the MTO had enacted bike lane standards province wide back in the early 2000s. That was the time to tell the municipalities beneath them that bike infrastructure must not cause vehicular congestion.

 

[Cambry Ardship]

How does that relate to anything? The "congestion" argument is just rationalization. If it wasn't that it would be something else that pits suburban drivers against people in the city who bike and walk around.

But I am curious. How do you, personally, balance the reduction in collisions and injuries from installation of bike lanes against potentially increased travel times for vehicles?

 

[christiesplits]

Toronto police cracking down on unsafe e-bike operators​

Toronto police cracking down on unsafe e-bike operators

The Toronto Police Service says it is cracking down on unsafe operators of e-bikes, e-scooters and other small electric vehicles.

toronto.citynews.ca

An education and enforcement campaign titled “Safe Streets, Safe Roads” began on Monday and will be in effect for the next two weeks until Sunday, Nov. 17, primarily in the downtown core.

Traffic officers will be pulling over those who are potentially breaking the law, including those who are speeding, running red lights, hopping on and off sidewalks, and not wearing a helmet.

 

[Admiral Beez]

The "congestion" argument is just rationalization.

Rationalization of what? If there was not congestion related to bike lanes Ford would bounce to something else to complain about.

How do you, personally, balance the reduction in collisions and injuries from installation of bike lanes against potentially increased travel times for vehicles?

Personally I don’t, but professionally this would go to the actuaries. Those are the folks who will decide how many additional dead or injured cyclists are worth an extra few minutes saved for drivers.

 

[afransen]

Rationalization of what? If there was not congestion related to bike lanes Ford would bounce to something else to complain about.

Bike lanes are pure culture war. Not about congestion. You can tell about how gleeful Cory Teneycke was about going the NDP/Liberals into opposing the policy.