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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
(theconversation.com)
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True about Toronto. But it's also pointing out how Toronto gets much less snow than most of the rest of Canada (apart from maybe Vancouver). But it draws a lot of comparisons with Oulu, where it snows much more than Toronto (and Montréal) but they actually do snow removal well.
Montréal's forte is the separated bike baths that zigzag across the city, creating a safe artery. And I'm not talking about Bloor, College/Gerrard or Davenport level painted stripes with broken barriers. But actual two-lane paths.
Toronto could have the same, at least as an artery kind, connecting the East and North East via Don Valley and Taylor Creek, West along the Humber. Alas there's no winter maintenance for some reason on these pathways.
Maybe things will change under Olivia.
No I do agree that the video does provide a good argument that it is possible to fix. It’s pretty clear that with good, well maintained paths that more people will bike.
What I doubt is convincing Canadians that we need to spend a lot more building and cleaning up paths.
The video literally says it’s “laziness” whereas big infrastructure spending isn’t not attractive to North Americans. And their example of, “this one city figured it out” is not as convincing as “all of Europe figured it out”.