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Terrible news for Toronto's cycling community! The City of Toronto updated the eglintonTOday Complete Street Project website saying that it can no longer be completed because of changes to provincial legislation. Given the City had resurfaced that street last fall without bike lanes, it's on them too.

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TwoWheelPoli said:
Terrible news for Toronto's cycling community! The City of Toronto updated the eglintonTOday Complete Street Project website saying that it can no longer be completed because of changes to provincial legislation. Given the City had resurfaced that street last fall without bike lanes, it's on them too.

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So we may have to wait for a non-(Progressive) Conservative government int the next 45th Ontario general election, which is tentatively scheduled to be held on April 11, 2030. Unless...
 
The original plans call for street widening to ensure 4 lanes of traffic in most sections. Are there just not the funds for that?
 
NY99 said:
The original plans call for street widening to ensure 4 lanes of traffic in most sections. Are there just not the funds for that?
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I believe you were thinking about the old Eglinton Connects project which is longer term. eglintonTOday is an interim solution which required lane removals.
 
TwoWheelPoli said:
I believe you were thinking about the old Eglinton Connects project which is longer term. eglintonTOday is an interim solution which required lane removals.
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This is reprehensible, i feel strongly we were being strung along and essentially lied to by the city either actively or through their silence for years now.

The mayor pushed through the street repaving last fall and assured us the only reason the bike lanes werent' going in was because Line 5 was not open yet. This was either a blunder on her part or a wilful mistruth.

Interestingly, I spoke to some businesses on Eglinton West last year and was told by one guy that the local BIA had been assured by city staff or councillors (he wasn't clear) that the project was not going ahead. I told him he was wrong, because I've been following this closely and seen the reassurances that Eglinton predated the lane change rules and therefore was fine to continue.

I really would love to know what changed to completely kill the rest of this project that has been approved for well over a year, and goes back 12 years through planning and earlier approval stages. It's really disgusting that it has come to this. And I do not see how the city comes out of this looking like innocent victims of Ford.
 
TwoWheelPoli said:
Terrible news for Toronto's cycling community! The City of Toronto updated the eglintonTOday Complete Street Project website saying that it can no longer be completed because of changes to provincial legislation. Given the City had resurfaced that street last fall without bike lanes, it's on them too.

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If/when we can get past this silly provincial legislation, we need to seize every opportunity to build bike lanes because we never know when some wingnut in office will snatch it away from us again!

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Northern Light said:
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No, it means the province complicated matters; and one west end councilor fussed and and its an election year, and there's a FIFA construction moratorium.

Though, for the record, they should 've got it done earlier. But its coming.....slowly.
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I'm asking you because you seem to know but it looks like bike lanes in Eglinton are dead
 
TwoWheelPoli said:
Terrible news for Toronto's cycling community! The City of Toronto updated the eglintonTOday Complete Street Project website saying that it can no longer be completed because of changes to provincial legislation. Given the City had resurfaced that street last fall without bike lanes, it's on them too.

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Could this be an indication that the province finally provided criteria to bureaucrats related to 212, or would it be something separate?
 
Aplus23 said:
I'm asking you because you seem to know but it looks like bike lanes in Eglinton are dead
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txlseries4 said:
Could this be an indication that the province finally provided criteria to bureaucrats related to 212, or would it be something separate?
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I'm looking into it. I will get back to the group when I have a clearer picture.
 
There's a whole bunch of elements of Eglinton TOday, including on Croham Road, Glen Cedar Road and Jimmy Wisdom Way. I really hope these will go ahead because even if the broader Eglinton lanes are paused/cancelled (which is just awful, feels like the City pulled a bait & switch), they will enable a lot of safe community connections.
 
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