junior43
Active Member
The outer areas of the 416 consider bicycles to be recreational, not transportation. Putting bicycle lanes out of sight in the river valleys, does that. Otherwise, the arterial roads would eventually have to reduce the speed limits on them to 50 km/h, or (horrors!) 40 km/h.
Another reason the suburbs consider them recreational is because they don't want to ride 15+Km's to work (and back) daily.
Personally, if you're going to put bike lanes in the burbs, they should be to route people to GO/TTC stations. There would be such a small percentage of bikers for these distances (to downtown) it's totally impractical to inconvenience the evil car drivers. And you can change the speed limit to whatever you want, they'll still do 80.