Ford government can rip out Toronto bike lanes

You are confused. I am a different poster than the person who last replied to you. I have not changed the reasons I object to bike lanes.

If you want to do the math properly, you have to measure throughput (the number of people transported over a meaningful distance over a meaningful amount of time). There isn't a bike lane in Toronto that can compete with its accompanying car lanes on this measure. Bike advocates and their bureaucrat supporters will never do the math correctly, because they know this is true. People who drive in the city regularly KNOW the bike lanes are underutilized per square meter compared to the car lanes. Further, you also have to project the throughput that would be achieved without bike lanes vs. with, in order to eliminate the effect of congestion caused by the presence of bike lanes. I just thought it's funny that a bike lane advocacy article couldn't come up with a picture to support their case, not even a cherry picked single block at the height of bicycle traffic! Useless lefties!

Feel free to scrutinize the report yourself. If you disagree with the methodology.
 
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I see we're moving the goal posts to now that the infrastructure is being underutilized. Cognitive dissonance means finding fault where there are none. So, with this here is the next set of facts that won't sway you but will convince you to look for the next moving goal posts.


Bikes outnumber cars on Bloor based on a previous analysis. What you said is a lie. More lies in this topic for no good reason. I will keep meeting myth with factoids but I already know people are looking to say the next lie.


here are some factoids for you, a video I took on Bloor and Royal York about 30 minutes ago




I see cars but I do not see bikes (factoid1)

(factoid 2) the survey you posted was done by Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition , not exactly impartial organization

(factoid 3) where is the link to the video they claim they made

(factoid 4) nobody is moving the goal post, the bike lanes were built because city claimed there were a lot of bike riders
or were they built on the fantasy that "if you build it, they will come" ?

so now it's your turn to hit us with some factoids please, start with the link to the video that the article you posted is supposingly based on
 
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I love that this article in favour of bike lanes is headed by a picture showing a single rider beside several cars in adjacent lanes, accidentally revealing the underutilization of bike lanes (and therefore the misallocation of dedicated space). I wonder how long the photographers waited to frame even this proportionality of bike traffic?
That's liberals for you. They'll argue their point to the end but provide very little proof. And when they do it just contradicts their argument.
 
and this is what it is like to drive in this mess

almost 2 minutes to drive 1 city block

and no bicycles anywhere in the bike lane

Only 2 minutes. Must've been a quiet day then cause I've waited for several traffic signal changes just to pass one block on some days.
 
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Only 2 minutes. Must've been a quiet day then cause I've waited for several traffic signal changes just to pass one block on some days.

it's ridiculous to cause so much chaos and take away time from drivers, that we will never get back

basically for no reason at all, hardly anybody uses these bike lanes
 
With all the new tariffs coming and the price of gas climbing, nobody can afford cars, so more bike lanes because bikes are cheaper. thanks Trump. Now it's time for Ford to TACO. 😁
 
The bike lanes are coming out


What an asshole.
He's not the mayor and just wants a faster commute to Queens Park, where he only goes 10 times a year.

Ford doesn't care about Toronto, Ontario or Canada.

 
Will believe it when I see it. Bike lanes have made driving from Islington to South Kingsway on Bloor a complete no-go zone. And you rarely see any bicycles.
This is a calculated bone that Doug has thrown to his original Conservative base. Because Doug morphed into a Liberal many years ago.
 
Will believe it when I see it. Bike lanes have made driving from Islington to South Kingsway on Bloor a complete no-go zone. And you rarely see any bicycles.
This is a calculated bone that Doug has thrown to his original Conservative base. Because Doug morphed into a Liberal many years ago.

Wow, it really must make your life harder.
The bike lanes move a lot of people safely.
And it won't add another lane of traffic.
 
The bike lanes move a lot of people safely.

not the ones on Bloor West, maybe downtown but not in the west.

Frank, since you drive and bike in the west end ,

why don't you take 5 minutes out of your busy schedule

and take a short video of those hundreds of cyclists using these bike lanes

love to see them

I took a couple of videos a few days ago and posted them here

lots of cars and no bikes

but of course you wont do that because there are no cyclists using these bike lanes

what you will do instead is to post a link to some Liberal study that shows that more people use bicycles than cars

must be nice living in a fantasy land :)
 
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Will believe it when I see it. Bike lanes have made driving from Islington to South Kingsway on Bloor a complete no-go zone. And you rarely see any bicycles.
This is a calculated bone that Doug has thrown to his original Conservative base. Because Doug morphed into a Liberal many years ago.

I agree

devil is in the details

"According to the province, the RFP will be to study and provide design options for removing bike lanes

on Bloor Street, Yonge Street, University Avenue, Queen’s Park, Queen’s Park Crescent and Avenue Road."

too bad they didn't do the studies in last 2 years

this can go on for another couple of years

until Ford gets promoted to federal government ;)
 
not the ones on Bloor West, maybe downtown but not in the west.

Frank, since you drive and bike in the west end ,

why don't you take 5 minutes out of your busy schedule

and take a short video of those hundreds of cyclists using these bike lanes

love to see them

I took a couple of videos a few days ago and posted them here

lots of cars and no bikes

but of course you wont do that because there are no cyclists using these bike lanes

what you will do instead is to post a link to some Liberal study that shows that more people use bicycles than cars

must be nice living in a fantasy land :)

Downtown they are in constant use.
Its less around Royal York.

But its still against the wishes of voters in Toronto.

 
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