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[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@orrkid1 @dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford To be honest, I wouldn’t consider myself a “biker”. i do bike more than the average person, but mostly take transit or walk places. Beyond bike lanes or not, for me the big problem is car-centric infrastructure, because is inefficient, unhealthy and just unfair.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford Don’t take my word for it, look at what people living in the area said when consulted https://t.co/KpWpFKmcsa

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford This is not a street that is safe for non drivers to walk by or bike. or It is how Toronto should look like
If we want to get over car-dependence.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@getacluekid @BogochIsaac Not true, most of those studies are based on data no longer relevant to our current situation when it comes to covid. Many studies haven’t found much in terms of risk.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@getacluekid @BogochIsaac Have you gone through it, this is another study based on data from people getting covid before Omicron And vaccines. Interestingly, no increased risk was found among women at all.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@getacluekid @BogochIsaac Have you seen studies like this one, they found some increased risk for some things, no difference for things like diabetes or heart issues https://t.co/qU11L42I6f

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford Just by looking at international examples of places that also have winter, you can see that more people would bike with the proper infrastructure in place. Look at Berlin, they have a true network of bike-lanes and many people use it even during the winter.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford I think a network of bikelanes, transit and pedestrian friendly infrastructure should be all parts of the equation. Also bikelanes make street more pedestrian friendly. If more people take a 30 min wak instead of a 5 min drive if they can, that is good.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford Not really, but I hate car dependence and all its impacts on common life. From being forced to spend thousands of dollars on a vehicle, making walking places unsafe, pollution, noise… i have lived in places much less car-dependent than Toronto and life is better.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford But the real cause of gridlock is too many people using cars than what would make sense in a dense urban environment like Toronto. The city needs to encourage people to switch modes of transportation. Biking is a feasible indowntown and lot more people would bike if it was safe

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford I tend to agree with you, it is of nonuse to throw bike-lanes randomly without an actual plan on how people will move within and out/into the city. It might not be advisable to have bike-lanes in certain areas.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford I think the big mistake of Toronto is not going all the way by developing a real network of bike lanes and redesigning downtown to make it focused on pedestrians and transit. No one should be driving on Queen street at 5pm unless strictly necessary.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford I am saying that car-centric infrastructure is the cause of gridlock. In some areas in Toronto there are more than 8k per sq km, people need options to cars to move without causing insane congestion.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@getacluekid @BogochIsaac No, but if it was really driving the population complications, we should be seeing a huge surge in the incidence of those ailments at the populations level and we are not.

[Toronto ❤️ @New_comer2018]

@dean_au23 @warrenhuska @BradMBradford This is data from a website where people volunteer information for comparing cities. This is the results of traffic of Toronto and Berlin. More traffic and congestion in Toronto, because people drive more.