Opinion | The right to a safe road should not be up for debate

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Opinion | The right to a safe road should not be up for debate
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Opinion: The right to a safe road should not be up for debate. The battle to make the midtown complete street pilot permanent has been won, but the length of the fight ensures that we are losing the war for our safety and our climate.

— safety improvements for pedestrians and cyclists along Yonge Street between Bloor Street and Davisville Avenue — in early February.

We don’t debate the right of children to an education or the ill to medical treatment each time we build a school or hospital, so why endlessly debate the right to a safe road? Removing the Yonge bike lane wouldn’t make cyclists disappear, it would only deprive them of their safety.

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