chrisw
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A video from today. Looks like a big crowd on the Danforth.
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General cycling issues (Is Toronto bike friendly?)
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bearcat
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Saw this on Reddit today 
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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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afransen
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This is just symbolic, and to draw attention away from more pernicious activities by the province. The views of locals matters not one damn.
MisterF
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Ironically enough, Mexico City has lots of bike lanes and they make it pretty easy to get around if you don't want to cram onto the metro or metrobus.
nfitz
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I doubt very much bike lanes will have any impact on the election. Might just flip a riding if it's a tie, but that's unlikely.
But, if Ford goes a full year early, and doesn't wait until 2026 (or at least late 2025), then based on what happened in 1990, I don't expect a PC landslide. The Liberals slipped 11 to 18 points after the election call (depending on which pollster you look at), because the electorate was furious at them for the cynical early election call, when the Liberals were polling at about what they were in the previous election. If the same numbers held, that would put the Tories down to 24 to 31 percent. In 2014 the Liberals won a majority when the PCs got 35.5% (and the Liberals got 37.7%).
On the other hand, Ford reminds me of Reagan. It's like he's covered with Teflon - doesn't matter how stupid something he says is - or how much money get's diverted - it slides right off of him.
81-717
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This e-biker's not much better:
Admiral Beez
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Disagree. The main reason the Bloor West lanes are being taken out is that the views of local residents and business were raging at the Etobicoke-based Premier and MPP. Ford, who hates bike lanes seized upon these local views as an impetus to going to war against all bike lanes. Without those local views, I don’t know if we’d be here now.