Ripping up bike lanes based on misplaced frustration is bad policy
A car stops halfway into the dedicated eastbound bike lane on Bloor St. West near Huron St., in Toronto, on July 9, 2018.Sarah Elton is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Eakin Chair in Critical Qualitative Health Research Methodology. Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher is a Data Sciences Institute postdoctoral fellow in civil and industrial engineering at the University of Toronto.
Bill 212 offers what appears to be a simple answer to the complicated problem of gridlock, and in doing so, it allows misinformation about bike lanes to justify policy. It ignores the well-documented benefits of safe bike infrastructure that should inform transportation policy. Take, for instance, research conducted at the University of Toronto that finds that bike lanes in the city help people get where they need to go.
These are all data-driven reasons for making sure Canadian cities have safe cycling infrastructure so that more people can choose to ride a bike for their everyday trips, without risking their lives on a road with cars and trucks.
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