On Thursday, Ford confirmed his government plans to rip out bike lanes that don't meet its criteria. Critics accuse the premier of creating more red tape.
in some cases but also plans to rip out routes that have already been built when having them in place brings “traffic in our cities to a standstill.”
“It isn’t enough to keep an eye on future bike lanes. We need to and will remove and replace existing bike lanes on primary roads that are bringing traffic in our cities to a standstill.”The province finally unveiled its plan to limit new bike lanes in Ontario’s towns and cities by making municipalities demonstrate they won’t negatively impact the flow of traffic on the roads they’re built on.
Ford’s confirmation there are plans to remove bike lanes, not just to block new ones, comes as the government appears not to have actually finalized what cities will have to demonstrate to get the green light on a bike lane or how long it will take to process those requests. Several Ontario cities told Global News they had not yet assessed how the new rules could impact them but would report back to council ones the rules were in place. Toronto, Ottawa, Brampton and Mississauga all said they were working to understand how the changes could impact their various active transportation master plans.
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