Premier Doug Ford will want to get rid of bike lanes on Queen’s Park Crescent and Avenue Road, south of Davenport Road, sources inform 680 NewsRadio.
The statement is anticipated to be made throughout the Ontario budget plan statement on Thursday.
When asked particularly if he’s targeting other bike lanes for elimination at an interview on Wednesday, Ford stated, “Not right now.”
“I’m not versus bike lanes, I simply wish to get these things moving … … Build all the bike lanes you desire, simply not on primary arterial roadways. Put them on the side roadways,” Ford stated before sources validated to 680 NewsRadio that more lanes had actually been targeted.
The Ford federal government has actually currently targeted bike lanes on Yonge Street, Bloor Street, and University Avenue for elimination, however an injunction was just recently provided, requiring the province to hold back on eliminating the lanes.
The injunction was released as an Ontario judge selects a Charter of Rights and Freedoms difficulty by biking supporters.
They argue the province’s quote to eliminate the lanes considerably increases their security danger, in infraction of their civil liberties, and has no connection to its mentioned goal to decrease blockage. It might even make traffic even worse, they recommend.
The 3 Toronto bike lanes were initially targeted in Bill 212, which needed cities to get provincial approval to set up a bike lane if it gets rid of a lane of traffic. It was passed in the Fall of 2024.
The preliminary stretch of the Bloor bike lane was set up in 2016, then extended a number of times given that the start of the pandemic. It extends around 13 kilometres from near Islington Avenue to Castle Frank.
Temporary University Avenue bike lanes set up in 2020 were made irreversible in 2021, the exact same year the Yonge Street lanes were set up.
