I'm surprised at the number of drivers who wait for you before they make their right turn. That doesn't happen at all here in Courtenay BC.

This example really highlights how much more chaotic the streets are for everyone without bike lanes

They transformed a stroad into something nice and now stupid Doug wants the stroad back.

And Christine Holgarth say cyclists will be safer without bike lanes

Thank you for your biking videos in Toronto. I watched a few of your video beginning to end and got a better feel of what biking is about in Toronto. And I must say Doug Ford’s bill 212 must be stopped. Not only is it oblivious to modern city transportation designs but also ignoring health benefits to Torontonians, all in pursuit of his personal interest. One thing I’m curious though, in this particular video starting around probably 7:00, why are there many cars parked on the lane that is marked as bike lane?

Not just bikes would have a field day with this video pov of bike lanes awesome showcase

Lol that better butt clown watch the traffic and accidents lol oh so smart one lol hilarious

It’s will never stop being ridiculous that the Ontario provincial government ripped out bike lanes on Toronto’s local streets against the wishes of the people of Toronto, so that the Transportation Minister from Brampton can think he’s getting to work faster.

I love these bike lanes so much. Bloor and university is one thing but if they ever try and take my beautiful college bike lanes I will risk it all

Love the video 68 yr old grandad love cycling downtown use Bloor regular to get downtown we are a 2 car family living in Bloor West if not for safe bike infrastructure I would never have started biking I’ve fallen in love with our city again my e bike has traveled over 12,000 kilometres from Pickering to Oakville I’m so saddened by the lack of vision our premier has and how divisive he is but I guess we should know better…. Ontario place … science centre … blue license plates .. buck a beer … paper bags at the LCBO … stickers on gas pumps … 1 billion dollars to a private monopoly to break a contract … and I could continue we must defeat this government and this bill basically creating a war on bikes !

Truck was waiting 4m10s. You arrived at the end of the queue at 1:03. Truck entered intersection at 5:13. Four minutes sounds like a lot, but there isn’t a ‘no lanes’ comparison time.

I love T.O.. Couldn't live there, but have great memories of clubbing and partying there. By the way, Doug the F*ckface Ford and his pack of a-holes have a zero connection policy with the people of Toronto, and the people of Ontario for that matter. That's by design.

Don't say that just because I drive through a red light that it means I don't get to drive a car. That's ridiculous.

tbh, this just shows how little people use bike lanes, this is peak summer. There's even less riders for the 6 months of the year where weather is shit

I like the addition of wording within your videos. And I hope you do a video if you're going to the protest tomorrow (Saturday).

First intersection already a car breaking the law. Glad you didn't pull all the way forward

Wow! That gridlock down there in Toronto is just INSANE folks! We gotta do something about it!

Always amazes me how much more unpleasant your ride becomes the moment you hit the part of University where there's no bike lane.

Good video, thank you. The cycle lanes on Bloor are narrow but are certainly in use. Interesting how the bikes pretty much keep up with the cars. On east side of east lane on the Queen's Park bridge, numerous tree branches encroach into the left lane, which appears to be out of service at that location. They pose a significant safety hazard to vehicular traffic. They should be pruned back to eliminate the encroachment. The trees appear to be growing on Queen's Park land. Does that make the pruning a provincial responsibility?

But I thought no cyclists used the bike lanes and traffic was all backed up because of them? Uh? Is Ford and the car brain crowd lying? That surely can't be...

Need get this out there to a larger audience

U rlly make some good vids man just watching bike povs is fun.

There are a lot of cyclists in those bike lanes nobody uses.

Thanks for this video. I recently rode West to East on the Bloor bike lanes. Middle of the day on Monday (around 1:30PM) and the traffic was very light. There was some backup at Kingsway, but not as much as in your video. The outrageous traffic just wasn't there. I don't doubt there's more during peak rush hour, but then again, where isn't there traffic at that time.

We need to CLEAR THE FOG of misunderstanding and bad data. When Doug Ford quotes a data point that in 2011 only 2% of people on Metropolitan Toronto commuted by bicycle, that’s helpful background but clearly doesn’t reflect current cycling which is a lot higher downtown. Back when bicycling was not as popular people biked for recreation, not commuter travel, which is absent from this number. If anything it demonstrates a need TO INSTALL bike lanes, to encourage it, not to remove them. Gridlock. Doug Ford uses this as a trigger word when discusses Bill 212. A way to stop exaggerations like this is use the following rating system: THE 5 POINT CONGESTION SCALE 5 GRIDLOCK 4 BUMPER TO BUMPER 3 TAIL-BACKS 1 BLOCK LONG 2 “SMALL TOWN” TRAFFIC 1 MINIMUM TRAFFIC Toronto doesn’t see Level 5. This is where cars are locked with no way forward or back for the whole neighbourhood, for the grid of streets and cross streets. That’s where the term gridlock comes from. We saw it when sports championship games ended and everyone wanted to drive home at the same time. A way to overcome this would be to host post game activities in the satadium that would encourage half the crowd to linger, so the flow from the event is slowed down. We do see Level 4, bumper to bumper for 2 or more blocks long. It’s claustrophobic mostly because when you’re in it you don’t know how long before you get out. But we know on South Kingsway. It’s VERY predictable. And it ebbs and flows, we see the worst but stick around and you see it flow so fast the entire queue clears past SoKi before starting to build again. The traffic is starting to fold in on itself because the street is at capacity. It’s saturated. But if cross streets are not filled up, traffic will start to flow again. B2B looks and feels like stop-and-go traffic on a highway where most of the car lanes have been closed by construction or a crash. But stop-and-go is consistent for 20 minutes or more. What we see at South Kingsway ebbs and flows. It’s worth mentioning this does not happen with westbound Bloor traffic for some reason (curious minds want to know!). Congestion happens from moment to moment but traffic planners use daily counts to measure general congestion. The Volume/Capacity Index looks like this: Daily Volume ÷ Capacity = Volume/Capacity Index When multiplied by 100 it is expressed as a percentage. I honestly don’t know the numbers for Bloor. But I do know that the Congestion Scale is something people can understand and they can see and measure. It would get measured to include time, so we see how long congestion is at a given level and at what part of the street / what intersection it happens. And it goes with numbers like throughput, how many cars go past a point on the street and how long it took to get through a neighbourhood, say from Islington to Jane and Jane to Islington. And we compare before the bike lanes to after they were installed plus again after the street layout was tweaked, to maximize flow. Where are all the dash cam videos made by anti-bike lane drivers?? Something I’m curious about is, how come all these videos are posted by people in favour of bike lanes and not by people who oppose them? Logic would dictate if you don’t like something you want to present your case well, so you get what you want. It makes no sense not to. I heard Christine Hogarth say she doesn’t trust the city’s data, that the province will produce their own. That’s good to hear. But when Ford quotes a census more than a decade old, that proves bike lanes SHOULD be installed, to encourage bicycling, that doesn’t look like they are doing their due diligence. The only “data” they are quoting is “we got a lot of complaints from constituents.” Helpful as that may be, they haven’t even bothered counting THAT number! When the Jarvis Street bike lanes were ripped out, the cycling community decided to get relevant data to justify bike lanes. When council removed the Jarvis bike lanes THEY DID NOT QUOTE ANY DATA. It was just an arbitrary decision. But if so much data is needed to install bike lanes, the same amount will be needed to remove them. Which brings us to Bill 212: One of the most central values of the Conservative Party is have less government and less regulation. Bill 212 is exactly the opposite, it’s more government regulation and it’s the province having oversight over city decisions. But there’s more: Someday this government will be replaced by NDP, Liberals or the Green Party. The fine print in this Bill, the stipulations for when a city is not allowed to install bike lanes can be changed. And all three opposition parties support bike lanes so these requirements can be turned around to REQUIRE cities to install bike lanes and justify why they DON’T install them. So it’s like brah. Go ahead. Then watch this legislation blow up in your face! It’s like that with Mayor Strong Powers. It was created to empower someone like John Tory to “get things done” like his Smart Track. Then we vote in a “lefty” for mayor. That’s opposite to what he intended.

Thanks for making this video. We have a similar double intersection on Keele and Rogers Road.

Thanks so much for putting this video together! I notice the centre left turn lane is almost always empty. Traffic planners will say they serve driveways to homes along here and we can’t reduce access they had before the bike lanes were installed (go to the next street and make a u-turn). These homes don’t have driveway access from side streets. That’s something the city can remedy over time. Something that might work is for the westbound arrows, make a split so the left turn arrows also point straight ahead. Keep the westbound arrows as they are. The city might object saying this empty centre lane serves emergency vehicles like firetrucks. So they need this left turn lane despite emergency vehicles having no problem on Bloor in the Annex, where there is no centre left turn lane. This won’t necessarily push cars past South Kingsway any faster but it would have two tail-backs half as long. The queued up lines would not be as long. Thanks again for publishing this video!

4:50 to 5:15, that’s all southbound car traffic waiting for a left turn green light. Since then, it looks like the city changed the traffic light timing a bit. Now the worst congestion is eastbound from ?South Kingsway. What is the solution?

Great video, Matt! 05:50 I noticed eastbound car congestion at South Kingsway. (Strange that there is none in your video.) When Jane ends at Bloor, the car traffic does not. It continues west from Jane to South Kingsway. At this point, the Jane traffic needs to make a left turn. That’s a long green light phase that adds delay for eastbound and westbound cars. I consistently see daytime traffic back up from South Kingsway to the far side of the Humber bridge. But when I took my time surveying this long tail-back, I noticed it builds then subsides like an ocean wave on the seashore. My hunch is this is one of the worst frustration points for drivers who complain about these bike lanes. It’s so noticeable my hunch is it is the reason why the Ford government tabled Bill 212, to respond to the many complaints about the bike lanes. This double intersection (Jane / South Kingsway) is hard to fix.

It's funny how 47 vehicle roughly equals 47-50 people ONLY. Imagine if they were on a bus

Lots o' bikes though! Nice to see. 😊

Traffic light coordination during rush hour can totally solve these light-to-light traffic jams. Or you know, traffic circles! I've been in these phantom traffic jams all over Toronto that are caused by too many cars moving slowly together in big chunks between traffic lights. Then all of a sudden like magic the road is clear! It's almost as if there are too many cars.

Why and who did you flip off? 25:15

Nice ride

It's truly eye opening to see how much more effort and dangerous your ride becomes after the bike lanes end.

I enjoy your videos. Thanks. I like how you pointed out how there have been no deaths since protected bike lanes have been in place!!!! That's why this makes sense.

Looks like a great day to bike!

All those people need to get bikes!

Great to see all your shoulder checks. Stresses me out when cyclists or pedestrians don't do it.

The side streets are not wide enough to allow a car to safely pass without being in the door zone. Bikes should take the lane.

Something's really loose on that bike!

This is indeed very heartwarming and very wonderful and very beautiful and very adorable and very helpful and this brings back such great memories of when I use to be a 90s kid and an early 2000s kid and I am a new subscriber as well:).

Nice. Thanks for making and sharing this video. June 1st is the first day of Toronto’s Bike Month. These bike lanes are still relatively new. My dream is one day there will be as many cyclists as there are drivers and the number of cars will roughly match the number of cyclists in your video. It will require a few changes.

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Great stuff, bike lanes in ottawa is moving at snails pace

Traffic is always much worse in the afternoon/evening rush hour. Filming one day at one time is not very conclusive. It would be fair to say that on that one day at that time bikes lanes are being used and traffic is flowing but not to say there is no traffic congestion due to bike lanes at any given time.

This is one day. The situation is very different as you head into the Kingsway area and beyond westbound. The situation is different on the Humber Bridge eastbound as you approach the South Kingsway This is also morning, the situation is very different at 4:30-5pm I am a cyclist and live in Bloor West, I am all for bike safety and bike lanes however I have personally been stuck in significant traffic more than once for a significant amount due to volume. Not sure what the solution is

What is your point?

Try fillming at 5pm

Thanks for this!