The issues are:Interesting. Douggie is wading in and plans to ban bike lanes that replace car lanes. It will be interesting to see how much power that has. For now, it sounds like legislation is forward looking but if Douggie thinks he can get away with it, I could see it being broadened to retro-active. For many many reasons, I think bike lanes on major arterial roads are stupid. It is just a special interest fight. Putting bike lanes on collector roads primarily and potentially minor arterial makes more sense for everybody imo. Toronto intentionally tries to put bike lanes on major arterial roads wherever possible.
Ontario plans to table legislation aiming to restrict bike lanes
Toronto has seen horrid traffic congestion of late, with the ongoing construction on the Gardiner Expressway being particularly problematic.toronto.citynews.ca
- you need an intuitive lane that you don't have to search for to find it
- you need a straight lane as much as possible, not something that does 50 turns on side streets to get to your destination
- you need a safe lane where you could say "i want my 11 y old to take it to go to school"
- the best lanes have the least amount of stops (ie. MGT) as stop n go is an energy suck and muscle destroyer if you're trying to commute
most side streets can't offer that. Lakeshore rd from Norris crescent to dwight does an AMAZING job, then you gotta know which side street to take, and when to go back on lakeshore to get some paint-lanes
but usuelly they end up stopping abruptly dumping you in live traffic
if you don't know where to go and don't feel confident to ride alongside cars you have to a) take the sidewalk if there's one which is illegal b) get on the road which a big majority of people don't feel comfortable with so back in the car/streetcar/subway they go