Sarkaria (Ontario’s transportation minister) said Friday that only 1.2 per cent of people use those bike lanes to commute to work, compared with 70 per cent who drive, and the lanes are taking away nearly half of the infrastructure on those roads, making commutes longer for drivers.
Why hasn’t anyone challenged the use of that statistic?
Commuting isn’t the only way to use transportation infrastructure and bike lanes, so it’s incredibly dishonest to say that “only 1.2%” are using those particular bike lanes.
If I use bike lanes for 100% of my errands and 0% for commuting, does that invalidate those lanes?
By the same token, at what point would they consider removing sidewalks if people aren’t using them specifically to walk to work?
Where I’m standing there are markets indicating bike lane entrance at the intersections, They have been up all spring and summer, but nobody uses them, they just use the sidewalk. Even people on electric bikes and scooters use the sidewalks. You can travel miles in every direction on bike lanes where I live
Can you name the area? I’d be interested in seeing what the rest of the cycling infrastructure looks like. The way it looks now, if it’s been up since spring, it still looks very unfinished.