It’s about much, much more than bike lanes,” Keesmaat, who now teaches at the University of Toronto, said in an interview Thursday. Moving bike lanes to a sidestreet will add $20 million to the $51 million cost, city staff say. “The Mayor believes bike lanes running on neighbouring streets along with public realm improvements to Yonge would be a win-win for the area that wouldn’t increase congestion.” Keesmaat says Tory is looking at bike lanes in the wrong way. Have your say“Moving bike lanes off Yonge implies that bike lanes are a problem as opposed to part of the solution” that will bring people to the three-kilometre stretch of Yonge, she said. Key to that is safety and comfort, something bike lanes improve by helping slow traffic and serving as a buffer between pedestrians and vehicles, while making cycling safer, Keesmaat said.

Source: thestar March 23, 2018 15:36 UTC