An Ontario judge has ruled that the province’s plan to get rid of various designated bike lanes in Toronto is unconstitutional.
In his July 29 decision, Justice Paul Schabas said that the province’s plan to scrap 19 kilometres of designated bike lanes in downtown Toronto would raise the risk of injury to cyclists and would not reduce traffic jams, as the province had said.
In late October of last year, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government put forward provincial legislation to get rid of the bike lanes and replace them with vehicle traffic lanes, saying it would reduce traffic, in a move that Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow called “arbitrary” and said would be a potential provincial overreach into city affairs….