General Road and Highway Discussion

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In his announcement, Sakaria singled out Ottawa, Kitchener and Toronto as examples of where bike lanes have expanded drastically, creating uncertainty about their impacts to traffic.

"Like for the underused bike lanes on Cedar and Joseph Streets in downtown Kitchener that are making it difficult for emergency vehicles to get through or O'Connor street in Ottawa, where lanes were pointlessly taken away on a key artery making it unsafe for drivers and cyclists alike," he said.

Sarkaria questioned some of the data used to estimate cycling traffic and the impact of bike lanes on congestions, saying he believes very hot and rainy days were not counted.

Existing bike lanes will not have to be ripped up under the first stage of new legislation, Sarkaria said. However, he said that the province will also be asking municipalities for data on projects initiated in the past five years to assess whether the province agrees.

It seems that Ford wants to be able to remove existing bike lanes, too.