Friends and Families for Safe Streets works to end #RoadViolence in TO. Monthly in-person #PeerSupport meetings have resumed! More: linktr.ee/ffsafestree
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“This is a clear public health crisis; I don’t know why it’s subject to political interference at all,” says @JessSpieker. What point in having experts, she wonders, and training engineers on #RoadSafety, if we ignore best practices and allow people to die?maisonneuve.org/article/2022…
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Four more than have been arrested over greenbelt crimes
A fourth person has been arrested at a protest against the removal of bike lanes in Etobicoke, Toronto police say. #Topoli
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In Toronto, more people are killed and injured by vehicles than from violent crimes. Anyone who claims to be a champion of safety, but who isn't advocating for safer roads, is just fear mongering or dog whistling.
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The is what conservatism has become. Spending taxpayer dollars to destroy public infrastructure that allowed wheelchair users to get onto public transit, in order to "own the libs".
Happening now on Bloor at Islington. Construction workers remove a transit platform where cyclists had been protesting. One person has been arrested after sitting and refusing to leave
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Day 8 of protesting against the removal of the Islington-Royal York section of the Bloor bike lanes. I made people protest signs while we were blocking the machinery, because the desire to craft cannot be stopped by riot cops.
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As a mother with children who grew up in Toronto riding bikes, I fear for our children having to compete with cars without dedicated bike lanes (like every modern city has).
This will mean the deaths of children. Let's hear it for the protestors that risk arrest to protect children. Remember it's illegal to ride on sidewalks.
#NEW: A tense standoff unfolded in Etobicoke Tuesday night, as roughly 100 protesters gathered around construction equipment being used to remove the protected bike lanes along Bloor Street West. bit.ly/4z5Y3GE
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What a G…”bike lanes save lives” drops mic and gets arrested
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These 32 #BloodBikes commemorate the 32 people killed on Bloor, Yonge & University in 20-years before bike lanes were built.
After bike lanes were installed only one tragic loss of life has occurred in 6-years since 2020.
Bike lanes keep EVERYONE save, not only people cycling.
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New from me: Almost 2 years after I filed an FOI, I finally got bureaucrats’ communications from Aug. to Nov. 2024 as Premier Ford prepared and launched his war on bike lanes
Internal records show provincial bureaucrats refuted Doug Ford’s arguments before he ordered Toronto bike lanes removed. thestar.com/news/gta/doug-fo…
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Internal docs show MTO staff warned against Ford govt’s bike lane removal: “No empirical evidence that ties bike lanes as the sole source of congestion, nor is there data that shows removing bike lanes help with better traffic flow” thestar.com/news/gta/doug-fo… #onpoli #bikeTO #TOpoli
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The Toronto Police arrested Aly Van Wyck-Smart, a Paralympian with cerebral palsy who was protecting part of the bike lane from removal.
On the bright side, the construction workers put the bollards back and said we'd won for the day.
ARREST: (DEMONSTRATION)
Bloor St W & Lothian Ave area
3:15 pm
-one adult female has been arrested for Mischief & Obstruct Police
-further information will be provided via news release
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Is it too much to ask for publishers of articles advocating for cycling routes on secondary roads in Toronto to require their authors to submit a proposed alternative?
@RDiManno, is this the sort of secondary route you're thinking as an alternative to the Yonge Street lanes?
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🚨 Honoured to witness the powerful uprising of over 600 doctors & health care workers fighting to keep bike lanes on Bloor, University & Yonge🚨
#BikeTo #ToPoli
Thank you for your support:
@m_layton @thebikinglawyer
@CycleToronto @FFSafeStreets
@LanrickBennett
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On Friday night nearly 1000 people on bikes rode west to the site of Ford's first incoming bike lane removals, Bloor just east of Islington.
Strength in numbers. #criticalmass
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“Stay in bloody Holland and don’t come mess up our lives with your nonsense.” “Cycling extremists.” “Mobility propagandists.” “Idiots.” “Slugs and rats.” “Clowns.” “Simply out to cause harm.” “Zero empathy towards anyone who just needs to get around.” “Revolting, evil people.”🧵
ALT A middle aged couple in casual business attire pose for a photo in an industrial courtyard in Tartu, Estonia.
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RT @AlexDRMather: Another day, another Toronto cyclist hit by a driver — this one in a gap in the Yonge bike lanes, which @fordnation and @…
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TOMORROW! If you are struggling in the aftermath of road violence, you are not alone. You are warmly welcome to join us on Sunday Sept 13 at 1:00pm for our monthly peer support meeting. You can join in person or on Zoom (please DM us for the link).
More: ffsafestreets.ca/support_ser…
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In recent years, two cyclists have been killed after being struck by vehicles near Avenue Road and Bloor Street:
In April of 2024, the driver of a flatbed truck killed Ali Sezgin Armagan, 39. Armagan, a recent immigrant from Turkey, was delivering food for Uber Eats when he was hit.
Three months later, the driver of a dump truck hit and killed an unnamed 24-year-old woman at Bloor and Avenue. A construction dumpster blocking the bike lane forced the cyclist to merge into traffic, where she was fatally struck.
Doug Ford's culture war on bike infrastructure will force cyclists to compete with drivers for space. It will make everyone less safe and lead to more deaths
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It's called a dooring Patricia D'Cunha and it's illegal pursuant to the HTA. What's with the victim blamey language @CityNewsTO ? You're better than this and the victim deserves respect.
A cyclist was rushed to hospital on Tuesday morning after he slammed into the door of a tow truck that was being opened
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I can't wait to take my toddler to daycare through a ravine. I'm sure it'll be entirely safe and not add a half hour to my commute. Time is money, for motorists only I guess. Grift Griftford never disappoints.
Today the Court of Appeal confirmed what I said on Bloor Street W., in Etobicoke on Tuesday: where bike lanes go is a decision for elected governments, not for courtrooms.
For almost two years, the future of Toronto’s streets sat in legal limbo. Drivers sat in gridlock. Businesses on Bloor West watched their sales fall. The Mayor spent those two years cheering on a courtroom fight instead of fixing the street. That’s two years this city doesn’t get back.
Here’s what today’s decision doesn’t change: the best people to decide what happens on Toronto’s streets are still Torontonians. My message to Queen’s Park is simple. You’ve made your point. Now let the city do this job, with the communities who live on these streets, and work with Toronto’s next mayor instead of around him.
My commitment from Tuesday stands, and today removed the last excuse for delay. As Mayor, I’ll take the bike lanes on Bloor Street West, from South Kingsway to Resurrection Road, out in my first year and restore the vehicle lanes. And I’ll build cyclists something better than a painted line on an arterial road: a real network of trails in our ravines and hydro corridors, plowed in winter, and routes on quieter streets. That promise doesn’t depend on any courtroom, and it never did.
Mayor Chow should accept today’s decision, end the legal chapter for good, and sit down with the province on an orderly plan. If she won’t, voters can choose a mayor in October who will.
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If you have been struggling and hurting in the aftermath of road violence, you are warmly welcome to join us Sunday at 1:00pm for our peer support meeting. If you'd like to join on Zoom, please DM us to get the link.
More info: ffsafestreets.ca/support_ser…
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