Ford Government Looks to Remove 3 Major Bike Lanes in Toronto

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government has tabled a bill that would see three major bike lanes removed from the City of Toronto. It’s a plan the mayor calls “arbitrary” and “costly.” Ford’s government has put forward an addendum to the framework for bike lanes in the province that would require sections of Bloor Street, Yonge Street, and University Avenue to be returned to lanes for vehicles, according to an Oct. 31 notice posted on the government’s website. The premier said the move would reduce gridlock in the city. “Bike lanes belong on secondary streets, not clogging traffic on main roads,” he said in an Oct. 31 post on the X platform. “It’s time to get you moving again.”...