Bikes are vehicles that can take up a whole lane. To have them walk back the bike lane laws just start using full lanes while on a bicycle.
https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Ontarios-Guide-to-Safe-Cycling.pdf
The problem is, people will still be dying and injured without these lanes. Unfortunately this legislation will likely take a lot of blood to rewrite.
Yeah I learned this first hand in Ontario. I refuse to ride on the road in that province and only ride on sidewalks. When I get questioned by police I cite my right to not follow law that puts me in danger. I found out after following the road laws and being struck by a truckhole with an attitude that OPP will not do shit if you get hit because as a cyclist you are uninsured. Unless you die, its a ‘collision’ with an uninsured vehicle taking the only damage in their eyes.
That’s something I wish was do able in Ontario. Cars are downright hostile to cyclists here. One in 300 will actively try to “buzz” you or “roll coal” you in bike lanes or intersections. Even biking with my kids exclusively in protected lanes and using pedestrian crossings I’ve had more close calls than I can count. Some of these drivers (willingly or thorough sheer carelessness) go out of their way to endanger CHILDREN.
Driving on the road taking up a lane requires a lot of focus and attention to keep yourself safe from the significant minority of drivers who actively disdain you. And that’s when you move to the side to let them illegally pass you at every opportunity. If you tried to take a full lane for any significant amount of time in Ontario you will 100% be hit on purpose. Maybe not every ride, but you wouldn’t survive a summer of “using your legal right to a full lane”.
Remember, during the provinvial election only 40% of eligible voters in Ontario voted at all, many citing that the other parties weren’t “engaging” enough.
Anyway, I’ll watch the whole thing later but fuck Ontario(I am from Ontario).
yeah fuck ontario (i am also from ontario)
FUCK Ontario (I used to live in Ontario, but moved)
Everyone complains, no one votes. It’s pathetic.
I blame the “at least we aren’t as bad as the US” shitty Canadian mentality.
“It could be worse”
Yeah, and it can be a lot fucking better.
Give it time. Won’t be long with cons in charge. Never is.
Having lived there, I know we’re not.
But we could be. Polievre knows how we could be very similar to America.
Can someone please say what it is so I don’t have to watch this video?
New bike lanes need special approval if they are going to disrupt cars in any way
Specifically, new city bike lanes will require provincial approval.
Even after the city has approves them.
Why’s that dumb? Because it ultimately forces bikes to share widened footpaths like in Europe and we’re better than that?
The footpaths are not being widened, in some cases the foot paths are only two shoulder widths wide.
Doug Ford made a claim about actually wanting to shrink some footpaths along university to allow for more cars, whole also removing dedicated bike lanes.
Most people in Canada don’t see bike lanes as something that increases pedestrian safety as a whole. Which is a shame all around.
“Widened footpaths”? You mean you want to take space away from cars for pedestrians now? Hah!
Luckily I know just the video that explains it
Because (a) it will be used as an excuse to blanket-deny every bike lane, no matter how little disruption it might cause in reality, and more importantly (b) bike lanes should disrupt cars and are still good!
It is dumb because they are also ripping up existing bike lanes that have not impacted traffic and has benefitted the local economy. This is also just a blanket law so nearly every road in the province is subject to it.
It is dumb because a provincial government is over reaching into politics on a very local level that typically impacts local neighbourhoods, this kind of decision making should be up to the councilors, the people the local population elected to make these decisions.
This country fucking sucks, Ontario fucking sucks, and the Fords can lick my sack. Let me tell ya folks, if you don’t want to live the rest of your life aching to leave this shithole, don’t ever go live outside of North America. You would experience great public transit and would experience the the wonder of walkable cities. Once you return to Canada you’ll retch and gag every time you’re forced to travel along a stroad or god forbid ever having to walk along one. I’m speaking from experience.
You have to be an actual troglodyte to think this law makes any sense at all. Unfortunately, that’s exactly who Ford is targeting with this shit and there’s way more of them than I ever imagined.
This law is really about “let me build a highway with no way for the public to stop me and no environment assement or environmental protection infrastructure.” He needed the bike lanes bit to draw attention away from the highway parts and use the culture war to get more votes. Its those pesky cyclists causing traffic, not our ridiculous car dependancy.
(I realize the bike lane law is Ontario-wide and not just Toronto.) Last time Toronto was on the world’s radar, I think, was when we had the “crack-smoking Mayor.” Who was that again? /s Was that another person from the same Ford family?
Fat fuck fraud family of Ford’s.
Drug Fraud, sticking to his former and current livelihood.
Ontario votes like America, everyone knows that
I so can’t wait until this goof becomes Prime Minister and still spends all his time and energy (when not bending over backwards for his developer buddies and wasting our money on vanity commercials) being vindictive to the people of Downtown Toronto
I think you mean Premier (of Ontario) in this context. Not the Prime Minister (of Canada).
He is already premier, and I shudder at the thought of ford as PM. He would pave montreal back into the stone age by covering it with highways.
If I don’t flee to Europe or another area to escape this ridiculous mismanagement and decades of set back to this province, I’ll be headed to the montreal area because there is at least a shred of walkability, cycling and transit still there.
