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Originally Posted by Doady
I have mentioned this before, and Doug Ford's plan to ban bike lanes highlights this problem again. I think the City of Toronto made a huge mistake building a huge cycling network for the downtown core that completely excludes North York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough. The result is that people who live in these places suffer from the bike lanes while seeing zero benefit from them. From the beginning, the City's approach to building a cycling network was divisive by design and so it has become divisive politically. The City of Toronto brought this ban not only upon itself but also the rest of Ontario.
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Suburban people were also against the "downtown relief line" since that was perceived at the "downtown elites" getting something they weren't even though they would directly benefit from the additional capacity. In fact, suburban areas actually get a net subsidy due to how much more it costs to provide infrastructure there since it's harder to connect things that are farther apart. Yet that stuff is mostly invisible to the average person.
Fact is, there are some areas that are inherently more suited to some modes than others, and central cities are more suited to transit and biking than lower density suburban areas since things are closer together and there's less available space. And that isn't the city's fault other than the people who allowed so much of the city and metro area to be designed in a suburban format to begin with.
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