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Bikes Lanes on Bloor and the Suburbs: On Dependency and Freedom from Cars

May 6, 2016 by Bernhard

Those of you who don’t live in Toronto are unaware, but a previously unfathomable thing came to pass on Wednesday. Toronto City Council voted in favour of a pilot project for bike lanes on one of Toronto’s major (if not the major) thoroughfares, Bloor Street. The rallying call of “Bike Lanes on Bloor” from cyclists over the last decade always struck me as mostly symbolic, if not a bit tongue-in-cheek. In car-centric Toronto, it just never seemed possible, no matter […]

Categories: Bicycles, Toronto, Transportation • Tags: bike lanes, suburbia, suburbs, Toronto

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Do Cyclists Pay for Drivers’ Use of Toronto Roads?

March 12, 2013 by Bernhard

The insinuation that cyclists do not pay for roads (with the further implication that motorists are paying for cyclists’ use of roads) is a well-worn refrain from motorists who are unenthusiastic, to say the least, about sharing road space with people on bicycles. The main thrust of the cyclists-are-freeloaders argument stems from the notion that roads are chiefly paid for by revenue schemes that are dependent on the production, sale, and operation of cars. Motorists pay licensing fees, fuel-taxes, and […]

Categories: Economy, Toronto • Tags: Bicycles, cost of roads, cycling, road infrastructure, road subsidies, Toronto, war on bikes, war on cars

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