I’ve only visited Toronto once for like three days a few years back and even I remember these streets (well, parts of them) being hugely urban with major TTC stops on each WTF do they mean no bikes
I didn’t WANT to drive my car anywhere near there left it in the hotel garage
They aren’t saying ‘no bikes,’ they are saying ‘no bike lanes.’ It’s predicated on the mistaken impression that the bike lanes reduce the number of car lanes, and thus would slow car traffic. They would like to up the danger to bikers by having them ‘take the lane’ and force them to bike in the car lane. In addition to the danger to biker, it actually slows driving traffic as bikes are now in car lanes of traffic, and if any biker does get hurt, which is bound to go up, the accidents will slow traffic as well.
I should stop saying ‘bike lane’ and ‘car lane’ I suppose - the Government of Ontario has a preference that it’s just a lane for everything.
I’ve only visited Toronto once for like three days a few years back and even I remember these streets (well, parts of them) being hugely urban with major TTC stops on each WTF do they mean no bikes
I didn’t WANT to drive my car anywhere near there left it in the hotel garage
They aren’t saying ‘no bikes,’ they are saying ‘no bike lanes.’ It’s predicated on the mistaken impression that the bike lanes reduce the number of car lanes, and thus would slow car traffic. They would like to up the danger to bikers by having them ‘take the lane’ and force them to bike in the car lane. In addition to the danger to biker, it actually slows driving traffic as bikes are now in car lanes of traffic, and if any biker does get hurt, which is bound to go up, the accidents will slow traffic as well.
I should stop saying ‘bike lane’ and ‘car lane’ I suppose - the Government of Ontario has a preference that it’s just a lane for everything.