Observation: all of the major streets that are targeted for bike lane removal have major below grade transit, either a subway or an LRT (and the LRT not running is 100% Ford’s fault). So, that whole thing about ‘no other options’ is just bunk. ALSO, over 1,000,000 people

School drop off accounts for between 25% and 40% of morning rush hour in London, UK. Let that sink in. We need more opportunities to get kids and caregivers out of cars, not less: airqualitynews.com/local-governme…

Imagine if kids and caregivers felt safe enough to walk and bike to school? Counterintuitively, we'd have less congested roads #onpoli #biketo

Ontario Premier promises to take bike lanes off Bloor. Inbox, BIA repping 270 businesses there says they: "a firm believer in the actual evidence that concludes that bike lanes on Bloor Street are good for business, improve safety for all road users, and reduce congestion"

Inbox: Group rep'ing merchants in the Bloor-Annex corridor tell Doug Ford that bike lanes help businesses: “Are we building highways or are we building main streets? Because highways don’t encourage main street economic activity.”

Bike lanes mean business: 93% of customers walk, cycle or take transit to visit Bloor Annex BIA local businesses and only 7% arrive by car, says local BIA reps. And business has been growing since the lanes were installed in 2016.

A huge and passionate crowd gathered at Queen's Park to let Doug Ford know that bicycle infrastructure saves lives and is a key part of *actually* addressing traffic congestion. More people biking = less people driving. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli

"Our lives are not expendable. We need safe streets everywhere," says Kendrew Pape of Friends and Families for Safe Streets, who lost his sister to road violence. #Rally4SafeStreets

Mayor Olivia Chow to Premier Doug Ford on bike lanes: “Stay in your lane, open the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West LRTs and fix the chaos at Metrolinx.” #onpoli

40% of Ontarians that cast a vote in 2022 voted for the PCs. And yet only ~12% of respondents here ranked building the 413 and the 401 tunnel as their #1 choice. Incredible support here for both buying the 407 and investing in better transit.

When we proposed the Bloor Bike lane pilot, we also proposed a rigorous third-party economic study. It was done and found a financial benefit to local businesses, on top of the significant safety improvements to ALL road users with minimal delays.

“Bike lanes could have saved our daughter” This was George and Karen Amaro’s message in a letter to Premier Ford urging him to put an end to Bill 212. The bill would block most new bike lanes and possibly lead to the removal of existing ones. 1/

Green Communities Canada + our #Ontario members wrote Prabmeet Sarkaria expressing concern re: #Bill212. This bill would negatively impact children’s health, the environment, increase #congestion + slow/reverse installation of #BikeLanes: greencommunitiescanada.org/letter-to-onta…

Children across Canada are facing an epidemic of inactivity. Alongside the climate crisis, this is no time to be reversing course on bike lane installation in Ontario. Our letter to Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria and Premier Ford on behalf of many of Green Communities Canada members:

"Legislation proposing to guide road design decisions, such as Bill 212, should explicitly place higher priority on road safety than motor vehicle travel times. We oppose the proposed legislation" says 120 physicians & researchers from UofT Prabmeet Sarkaria: healthydebate.ca/2024/10/topic/…

Letter from CEO of Sinai Health (Mount Sinai hospital etc.) noting that the *majority* of their employees cycle to work, and they want protected bike lanes (Mount Sinai hospital is on University Ave.) toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2… (PDF) h/t Matt Elliott

The supplementary report on Doug Ford's bike lane ban bill is now available. City staff say it could cost $48 million in provincial tax money to remove bike lanes. And city would lose out on $27 million invested to install the infrastructure. toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2… (PDF)

An admission of the significant financial and safety costs. The city regularly looks at alternative routes and puts lanes on side streets. Shaw (instead of Ossington), Palmerston (Bathurst), Brunswick (Spadina). Yonge, University and Bloor don't have equivalent options.

Dear Ontario Premier Doug Ford (Doug Ford), My 10-year-old son was identified with a need last year and had to change public schools. I now bike him 2.2km to school in the mornings and he bikes home alone. We use the 8-year-old Bloor Street bike lanes which make the roads

Huzzah! Keep on riding in the free world, friends: thestar.com/news/gta/court…