“Blaming bike lanes for city-wide failure of addressing congestion feels misguided or misinformed,” said Marvin Macaraig, a health promotor with Access Alliance, an organization that provides health and community services. “The 401 (highway) has congestion on it all day long and there are no bike lanes.”
Macaraig says many other cities have seen success with bike lanes, pointing to statistics from New York City that show travel times on one Manhattan street went down 35 per cent after bike lanes were installed.
“Bike lanes are a proven solution to addressing local congestion,” he said. “Other cities are moving forward with it, and it feels like if we take it out now, we will be moving backwards.”
Read the full article here, ‘Should Toronto tear up its bike lanes to improve traffic flow? Critics say it’s not so simple’.
