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If someone thinks bike lanes on side streets - separated and protected, not just a painted symbol where cars also go - they should hold up Palmerston Avenue south of Queen as an example. If that’s what you want, fine. I live there and we’ve adjusted. But Bloor West residents will balk at that too.

I've encountered brad bradford riding his bike to city hall multiple times... On the danforth/bloor bike lane not side streets

Why this won't work... spacing.ca/toronto/2013...

The thing is, you don't even need to remove parking to create a safe and efficient local street bike route. What you need to remove is car traffic and stop signs. Here's a great example of how to prevent car traffic. Also a great example of where not to place stop signs. youtu.be/V483xZy2gJM?...

I'm not against bikes, he says. Just against bikes going useful places.

Pavlov's bikes but for votes.

Pretty sure at least one of these was the one I was thinking of!

What that really means, no matter who says it, is that cyclists deserve only the roads motorists don't want. It's flat-out bigotry.

When Ford made the same suggestion last year, removing the short segment between Kipling and Islington added almost a kilometre to travel route. bsky.app/profile/paul...

I wouldn't call Kipling a secondary street either. In fact, I'd be much more likely to call Kipling 'Etobicoke's main street' than Bloor.

Bradford needs to show us the map for his city wide bike plan if he wants ordinary voters to take him seriously. That said he's not going to win so I'm not too worried.

Of course he knows that. That’s what makes it worse. He’s being disingenuous and cynically lying to get votes/power. The worst kind of politician.

The answer to these questions are: shut your mouth and stop thinking about it.

Building a cycle path system along the ravines sounds expensive & time-consuming & difficult. The paths have to planned from scratch, they'd be next to water so you can't just plop down asphalt w/o accounting for the river, access routes need to be cut. Cycle tracks are cheap & on existing roadway.

show me those ravines and corridors and overlay them with a map that shows our population density and places cyclists would take their bikes to. e.g. i don't think University Ave's hospitals have a ravine system that runs along its path

After all, many people's place of work is right next to, or inside, their local hydro corridor. 🙃