Doug Doyle-Baker

I'm a rower, runner, cyclist, skier & veterinarian! UCVM 2022 🐾. BHSc & MSc. Cat dad. Former Albertan and @CBCCalgary Unconventional Panelist. he/him

[Doug Doyle-Baker @DougDoyleBaker]

@mindoverdata I take the Bloor and Yonge bike lanes daily for my commute to Rosedale because it is the most direct route. There are no side streets that would get me to work as fast as that. Also, because these bike lanes are protected they are the safest route to get there.

[Hafeez A. @trainguy89]

If Dougie gets rid of our bike lanes,

WE WILL TAKE THE LANE.

WE WILL TAKE THE LANE.

[Doug Doyle-Baker @DougDoyleBaker]

@PrabSarkaria Stay in your lane. Let municipalities decide how they build bike lanes.

[Mayor Olivia Chow 🇨🇦 @MayorOliviaChow]

S&P Global has improved our credit rating for the first time since 2001.

A year ago, our city faced a number of financial challenges, but with prudent financial management and honest, long-term planning, we’ve started to turn it around and get the City back on track.

[Bernhard Isopp @BernhardIsopp]

Hi all, I rarely go on here anymore, but I've returned just to remind everyone in Ontario: there aren't too many bike lanes, there are too many cars.

[Peter Flax @Pflax1]

I have always found it fascinating how motorists and politicians feel aggrieved about 3-foot-wide bike lanes causing congestion while apparently feeling fine about dedicating 50-70% of the roadway for people to store private property, for free, for days.

[Adam Scott @AdamScottEnv]

As a long-time downtown Toronto cyclist who also owns & drives a car in the city, I think have some insight into what drives some people to rage against bike lanes in the GTA. I honestly feel that root of anti-bike lane sentiment is jealousy. 🧵 #onpoli @PrabSarkaria

[Doug Doyle-Baker @DougDoyleBaker]

@fordnation I am issuing a challenge from one Doug to another Doug: Let’s go for a Dougs bike ride through Toronto so you can see how important the current (and future) bike lanes are to reducing congestion and keeping the city (and Dougs) moving.

[Doug Doyle-Baker @DougDoyleBaker]

@LoganKanapathi @PrabSarkaria Explain how building highways reduces congestion and gridlock?

[Doug Doyle-Baker @DougDoyleBaker]

@PrabSarkaria @TheThanigasalam @CHogarthPC So instead of riding in a bike lane I am going to ride in the car lane, slowing down the cars behind me and endangering myself. This is only going to increase congestion and make streets less safe for Ontarians. Congrats👏

[Doug Doyle-Baker @DougDoyleBaker]

@RaymondChoPC @fordnation @PrabSarkaria Bike lanes reduce congestion. This is only going to make traffic worse.

[Doug Doyle-Baker @DougDoyleBaker]

Toronto needs protected bike lanes/active mobility lanes to protect cyclists and other vulnerable road users from distracted drivers like this one. Biking home from work I was stopped at a red light and a distracted driver ran into me. @TheBikingLawyer @CycleToronto #bikelanes

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Omg. Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣#PierreIsUnelectable #PierrePoilievre

[TRexMD @TRexMD780]

So. To the @Alberta_UCP:

Thank you for destroying Family Medicine.

Thank you for setting fire to Acute Care in hospitals.

Thank you for pushing wait times to astronomical levels in nearly every specialty in Alberta.

Thank you for decimating this province

21/x

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @CompletedStreet]

Time to phase out door zone bike lanes.

[How-Sen @HowSenChong]

Cars per day:
401: 400,000
Gardiner: 140,000
DVP: 130,000
427: 300,000
Total on all major highways: 970,000

Rides per day:
GO train system: 200,000
TTC: 2,500,000

Households with no access to car: 28%

Yet, nearly all public space is given to cars.

[How-Sen @HowSenChong]

Hilarious bit from @adamconover about how crazy our private car-based transportation system is.

[Doug Doyle-Baker @DougDoyleBaker]

@fordnation and @OntarioPCParty want to ban bike lanes to make more space for cars. Meanwhile Toronto car drivers can’t stay in any lane… #ONpoli
(Witnessed this in Summerhill yesterday. Luckily no one was hurt, except for a bollard, some plants, and a sprinkler)

[How-Sen @HowSenChong]

A reminder that bike lanes move 2-7 times more people than car lanes.

If people don’t have those bike lanes, that means way more people making car traffic worse by travelling by themselves in cars and Ubers.

Source: https://t.co/2DffFSZkLW

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

Parking mandates destroy our communities.