chrisw
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A video from today. Looks like a big crowd on the Danforth.
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bearcat
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Saw this on Reddit today 
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bearcat
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Unfortunately I missed this one.
Admiral Beez
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I still believe that the bike lanes on Bloor (east of High Park), Yonge and University will remain. Much as we had to abandon resistance to Ontario Place's privatization to upload the Gardiner and QEW, Mayor Chow will need to sacrifice the Bloor West lanes and agree to seek approval of any new bike lanes.Saw this on Reddit today
Andy_in_Toronto
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@Admiral Beez utterly embarrassing and worth of an artic Mexico narco state.
leopetr
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I don't go into the GO Expansion thread and fantasize about removing the Lakeshore GO lines
nfitz
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That seems like a pragmatic approach to this battle.
It's not whether you win or lose a battle. It's whether you win or lose the war.
Admiral Beez
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True, but if the people on Bloor West want to keep their bike lanes, they need to vote accordingly in the upcoming provincial election. I fear however that the PCs will win a landslide province wide.
Andy_in_Toronto
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@Admiral Beez you are missing the point. It is not about who to vote. I went to those community meetings at Bloor West to get a sense of the situation.
The vaste majority is in favor of the new street design. It is how specific people get played by two or three politicians who steer up emotions such as fear, anger and hate among the community. There are always a few who jump on that train. Some folks behaved to angry and crazy. Embarrassing for a Western civilization.
So sad to see here in Canada what we despise in other parts of the continent!
The vaste majority is in favor of the new street design. It is how specific people get played by two or three politicians who steer up emotions such as fear, anger and hate among the community. There are always a few who jump on that train. Some folks behaved to angry and crazy. Embarrassing for a Western civilization.
So sad to see here in Canada what we despise in other parts of the continent!
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Obsidian
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As I was saying on the last page, Yonge, Bloor and University are just the first to be removed, many more to follow.Saw this on Reddit today
also here is the wording of this completely unbias "survey"
- Some people say the Richmond Street bike lanes cause too much traffic congestion and lead to too much of an increase in travel times for drivers, and that they should be removed immediately.
- Other people say that the city should continue to keep this stretch of bike lanes in place
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MisterF
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If Ford gets reelected he's definitely not going to stop at Yonge, Bloor, and University, so this doesn't surprise me at all. And he's not going to stop at bike lanes either. The Fords have ranted about streetcars for decades, maybe those will be next in his crosshairs. Maybe the long dead freeways throughout the middle of the city will be revived. His attacks on Toronto aren't going to stop.
afransen
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If those bike lanes come out, the city should just replace them with sidewalks to spite the province.
afransen
Senior Member
This is just symbolic, and to draw attention away from more pernicious activities by the province. The views of locals matters not one damn.
Northern Light
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I like the spirit of the idea, but let me play with it a bit.........
How about a liberal landscaped boulevard....... in which we plant highly endangered species that will immediately qualify the boulevard for some level of environmental protection, under both provincial and federal legislation.
Now, if we were to lay those plants out as dominant on one side of the boulevard, with the balance being more common and low value species, we could provide space for a future cycle track.......(or we could just lay one down now as a differential surfaced multi-use path.)
Lets see.......Oak Savannah boulevards............. Butternut Trees.............. PawPaw groves......... I'm liking it......
afransen
Senior Member
Maybe a different textured "sidewalk" next to the existing sidewalk with 'cycling strictly prohibited' signs in tiny font...