This is why ill never want to live in car centric North America, and blessed that Australia is moving away from seeing them as the example and looking to Europe and Asia for Urban Planning.

Even without induced demand, traffic is unlikely to improve. Why do people forget that the people on bikes, traveling somewhere would probably have no choice but to drive a car if their bike infrastructure disappears?

No seriously, we _should_ ban bike lanes, *_& turn all high-intersection streets into mixed-mode walkable <20 MPH zones, with traffic slowing islands & shade trees (including female!)_*

Im a major cyclist who bikes all year round for 30+ years and over 120km per week .. I know every bike lane and bike path in the city ... Im sorry, but I 100% totally agree with Ford !!!! .. removing live car lanes for bike lanes in an already gridlocked city is insane !!! .. its ok to remove parking lanes, but not live car lanes .. the bike lanes on University Ave reduced live traffic lanes from 3 to 2 lanes !! Im in favor of bike lanes, but do it properly, ffs ..

Yes. On existing arterial roads where car lanes are removed. On new arterial roads sure. We should get more bike paths. Bike paths along sides of roads and on some secondary roads, sure!

Doug Ford is a moron.

That kid riding at 8:26 - so cute <3

Ban cars.

If Apillo get itself together 2-3 years more by 2026,it'll be 9.5/10. In late 2024 overall is only an 8.5.😮

Im one of those people who support doug ford. They built useless bike lanes into etobicoke where it barely gets used, and now everyday we have to deal with traffic not moving on bloor due to single lane. I totally support him to get rid of this extension. Etobicoke has side streets which can be used. Stop putting bike lanes on major routes when side streets exist

The problem is not the uneducated who voted for Ford, the problem is the apathetic majority that does not vote and let people like Ford be in charge.

So when I drive from Ottawa to Toronto to see my family I travel about 480km ... and at $0.89/km by making that trip that means that OTHER people need to pay $427.20 for my trip. What's interesting is that a train ticket to make the same trip costs about $150 ... so it would actually be significantly cheaper for EVERYONE ELSE to just pay for a train ticket for me and I get to ride for free than it would for me to drive myself ... what a weird world we live in!

you ass-ume a lot.

i have seen one guy using a bike lane. only one in all the years they've had them.

I’d be willing to bet 60+% of the traffic is idiots constantly switching to the lane that’s moving.

Let's see. Any benefit for cars must be eliminated or denied, and any negativity of bike lines must be eliminated or denied. This lack of objectivity makes most bike advocates seem disingenuous. Bike lanes were added near my residence. At BEST, there is 1 bike for 50 cars. With removal of lanes and restrictions on right hand turns, traffic is objectively worse, so there is a clear history where the previously extra car lane did not create a induced demand so "traffic will be as bad or worse" is observably false. This is why videos like this are dismissed.

I love flying by stopped traffic on ny trike i avoid main roads like the plague when i do drive get to work just as fast without the high blood pressure i took a 3 week vacation that involved a lot of driving best 3 weeks if my life is i dif not have to see i-35 and most cities we parked at hotel and walked or used transit

American cyclists need to to worry about about people with road rage also there’s too many oversized pickup trucks and other unessacarily large vehicles

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Why would I trust the decision of cars over bikes from someone who visible has not being able to ride bicycles in the past 50 years of his life, on top of having the last name of a US automaker. Sounds as if someone from the Samsung family were to get to a government position where they could start banning iPhone sales in the country.

How many of these will end up in the canals?

I like your analysis of stress levels for cyclists, who roughly correspond to locals, tourists, commuters, and people training. The corresponding observation is that the faster, more experienced (stress levels 3 and 4) riders do not typically want bike lanes. The slower riders that use those lanes make high speed use difficult, dangerous, and in many cases illegal (many have max speeds about 20-30kmh.). If you have a 30-50 km commute you want to average at least 35-40kmh. If you need to use bike lanes with a much lower max speed and may add more km to your route (they seldom are optimized to get you where you need to go when commutting), you tend to stay away. So I support bike lanes for the lower levels. Good to get them out on bikes. But what is needed to get people commuting is better laws to protect cyclists (1 m minimum passing, for example) and to get rid of old requirements (BC's idiotic stay as close to the right mandate in the Transport Act). Give cyclists who can move at surprising speed when fit and motivated all rights to take the lane and get to where they are going at their best speed.

People act like induced demand is some sort of “gotcha!” “Hey, no sense doing this improvement, but induced demand will just cause more traffic.” If all we cared about was low levels of traffic, we could just block off the street. Voilà, no traffic. The point is to carry drivers and passengers over a given spot, and road improvements do that.

They don’t like cyclists on the road, so let’s remove the thing that keeps them out of the road. What??

2:09 ... your getting less miles than my xiaomi m365 nah thats sus

I hate ash fault

Surprisingly good commentary. Here in Hollywood, there's a lot of anger at a new bike path that "stole" a car lane, causing increased congestion. Cyclists are not using it so far since it's new.

very very strong points raised all around

As someone who cycle and drive depending on where I am going, bike lanes makes it much easier to drive because I don't have to deal with stupid cyclists and much easier to cycle because I don't need to deal with stupid drivers.

Cars are a leading cause of death but Americans still don’t see them as dangerous. Could you imagine if bikes killed more people than heart disease? You’d be thrown in jail for even thinking about riding one

Hi Nic, catching up on your video. I really like this style of video. After watching this, makes me want to find my passport and google “how do I become a citizen of the Netherlands?” I live in a North American city, with of course, crappy bike infrastructure. It is getting better, but constant push back.

People are such aholes. This car-centric world will inevitably collapse.

100% true. Take a look at any Latin American mega city.

Time to ban idiots...oh wait where did half of the usa gone ?!

In the Netherlands we ARE removing some bike lanes where it's deemed safe to combine cars and bikes. Mostly for less busyt streets, lower speed limits of only 30km/h or 18mph. From my experience it's still great to use those types of roads.

If bike lanes are the cause of traffic woes, then please get them to India. There’s no bike lanes, and complete traffic chaos. Ride a bike there for an hour and you’ll thank your stars for being sane and not injured at the end of the hour. These people are talking nonsense. If there are no bike lanes, people won’t ride bikes because it’s way too dangerous. That means more cars on the roads. Imagine the area taken up by just 1 car versus 1 bicycle lanes. The Toronto authorities are going retrograde in their thinking.

Isn't it interesting that all pro-bike lanes narrative is supported by images of people riding in summer? What do these cyclists do in winter? They go back to their cars and buses, that's what they do. And for that reason, do we want it or not, every city must keep its transportation infrastructure level at the capacity that is capable of supporting the peak of usage, which include all the cyclist not cycling, but using their cars and buses. Stick to the environment and safety benefits, perhaps.

As the Thai who love to walk 6 km+ per day, I couldn't agree more that Bangkok is a walking nightmare. We usually go for the mall for the walk because the cleanliness and how safe it would be compared to the sidewalk. The place where you can walk normally clustered around the CBD [central business district] of Silom/ Siam, out of that, it is very dangerous. I was amazed by how walking friendly it is in countries like Japan, Germany, Austria, Benelux that I can walk without worries [compared to Thailand anyway]. I wish that my country would put on investment for sidewalks and bike lens more.

I'm currently a food delivery driver. However, when I'm not working, I don't want to drive if I don't have to. The grocery store is less than 2km away, and the distance between shopping areas on either end of town is only 5km. It's very hilly, about 300ft in elevation change, but it is bikeable. Why would I waste money on gas, take up road space, potentially get in an accident, when I can just ride my bike? People who need to drive should be thanking everyone who chooses not to drive. Car brain is terrible.

All these Europeans in the comments in the comments judging on their high horses. We have preexisting zoning codes and development that make it hard to incorporate other modes of transportation. Add to that the country (and multiple states) are massive with long distances between cities, it makes cycling less appealing as well.

It’s not that I don’t want this for Vancouver, rather I want cyclists to also follow the laws.

And as a car, in fietsstraat you can’t pass the bicycles.

Talk about dumb logic.

I came to the same conclusion before I saw this video. I like to ride my e-bike 6 miles to work May through September in Seattle. In the winter I would be inclined to drive 2/3 of the way by car, and then walk or bus the rest. I got a e-scooter for October through April (dark and wet months) for my 20 block ride to the light rail station. The weak link in my commute is the light rail. Reliability, overcrowding, train as Street people shelter, and violent crime is a light rail problem in Seattle. Seattle is a bad city to live in because there is zero traffic law enforcement.

Why don't the people complaining about the underuse of bike lanes use the bike lanes instead of the car? If the bike lane disappears. What mode of transport does the bike user use? Do they just stay in their house? It would be interesting to see every cyclist get a gigantic pickup truck for a day just to piss off the anti bike lane brigade.

Remove bike lanes. Widen and repave sidewalks for mixed use. Create city wide car free streets network.

I’m older/ wealthy enough now to own a car, maintain it and pay for its storage (parking) ||>> but that came slowly after 10 years of being car-free, saving money by cycling (with transit/ride share on inclement weather) - I understand the importance of having transportation choices. And I understand the economic impact of vehicle ownership. In order to get ahead financially, not get into massive debt and have more money for savings/investments - a bike is a necessary part of the equation.

Americans (and Canadians) are stupid AF. Got it. Meanwhile in Europe, new bike lanes everywhere! Because there are more people with common sense.

In the Netherlands have we 3000km bikelanes and we are much healthier then Canadians and Americans

Lesser cars more bikes is much healthier. More space for bikes is much better.