Are Bike Lanes Causing Traffic?
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Bike lanes are a huge controversial issue here in Toronto. Doug Ford is wanting to rip out the bike lanes in Toronto saying it causes traffic, others say the bike lanes decrease traffic and this is just a way for him to distract people from his policy issues around the SPA and new highway.
Bike lanes have been studied by urban planners, and there are statistics around designated bike lanes, safety and traffic - so today we will explain the hard facts about a very emotional issue.
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| 0:58.1 | Controversial subjects with the facts can be tense, but we are a sub-science here to make things make sense. |
| 1:08.6 | Today we are talking about bike lanes. |
| 1:11.3 | Are they ruining cities? |
| 1:12.7 | Do bike lanes increase traffic and congestion with cars? |
| 1:17.0 | We're going to look into the research that's actually existed across cities in the world |
| 1:20.8 | to investigate what actually the impact of bike lanes in cities is. |
| 1:26.2 | And this is because we are in a city where it's really controversial. Everyone's talking about bike lanes in cities is. And this is because we are in a city where it's really controversial. |
| 1:30.5 | Everyone's talking about bike lanes in Toronto. |
| 1:32.5 | I think it happens kind of everywhere. |
| 1:34.1 | But right now, for the context for where we're coming from, our like Premier, who |
| 1:38.9 | manages the province, not the city is meddling in the city and saying he's going to |
| 1:43.3 | remove bike lanes in the city and saying he's going to remove bike lanes in the city |
| 1:45.0 | and passing laws that say no car lanes can be removed for the purpose of putting a bike lane |
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