Jared Kolb
@JaredKolb
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Current threads: parks, main streets, cycling and parenting #EastEndLove. Interim Executive Director at Green Communities Canada. Views here are my own.
Toronto
Joined March 2009
Huzzah! Keep on riding in the free world, friends:
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A panel of Divisional Court judges have rejected the Ford government’s motion to appeal an injunction preventing the removal of Toronto bike lanes
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An admission of the significant financial and safety costs. The city regularly looks at alternative routes and puts lanes on side streets. Shaw (instead of Ossington), Palmerston (Bathurst), Brunswick (Spadina). Yonge, University and Bloor don't have equivalent options.
Among everything else that’s despicable about this, ITS A CLEAR ADMISSION THAT THEY KNOW THAT DOING THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY ENDANGER LIVES. People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) & they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.
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Dear Ontario Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation), My 10-year-old son was identified with a need last year and had to change public schools. I now bike him 2.2km to school in the mornings and he bikes home alone. We use the 8-year-old Bloor Street bike lanes which make the roads
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The supplementary report on Doug Ford's bike lane ban bill is now available. City staff say it could cost $48 million in provincial tax money to remove bike lanes. And city would lose out on $27 million invested to install the infrastructure. https://t.co/0c4kWCO3WC (PDF)
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Letter from CEO of Sinai Health (Mount Sinai hospital etc.) noting that the *majority* of their employees cycle to work, and they want protected bike lanes (Mount Sinai hospital is on University Ave.) https://t.co/QxKFJWRo7i (PDF) h/t @GraphicMatt
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"Legislation proposing to guide road design decisions, such as Bill 212, should explicitly place higher priority on road safety than motor vehicle travel times. We oppose the proposed legislation" says 120 physicians & researchers from UofT @PrabSarkaria:
healthydebate.ca
120 physicians and researchers from the University of Toronto are signatories to this letter to Doug Ford.
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Children across Canada are facing an epidemic of inactivity. Alongside the climate crisis, this is no time to be reversing course on bike lane installation in Ontario. Our letter to Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria and Premier Ford on behalf of many of @grncommunities members:
Green Communities Canada + our #Ontario members wrote @PrabSarkaria expressing concern re: #Bill212. This bill would negatively impact children’s health, the environment, increase #congestion + slow/reverse installation of #BikeLanes:
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Green Communities Canada + our #Ontario members wrote @PrabSarkaria expressing concern re: #Bill212. This bill would negatively impact children’s health, the environment, increase #congestion + slow/reverse installation of #BikeLanes:
greencommunitiescanada.org
October 29, 2024 Hon. Prabmeet SarkariaMinister of Transportation of Ontario7700 Hurontario Street, Unit 402Brampton, ON L6Y 4M3 To Minister Sarkaria, We are writing to you with deep concern about...
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When we proposed the Bloor Bike lane pilot, we also proposed a rigorous third-party economic study. It was done and found a financial benefit to local businesses, on top of the significant safety improvements to ALL road users with minimal delays.
"All of the evidence we’re seeing tells a very compelling story – bike lanes are good for business, they improve safety for all road users, and reduce congestion." Businesses on Bloor Street @BloorAnnexBIA , where @fordnation wants to eliminate bike lanes.
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“Bike lanes could have saved our daughter” This was George and Karen Amaro’s message in a letter to Premier Ford urging him to put an end to Bill 212. The bill would block most new bike lanes and possibly lead to the removal of existing ones. 1/
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40% of Ontarians that cast a vote in 2022 voted for the PCs. And yet only ~12% of respondents here ranked building the 413 and the 401 tunnel as their #1 choice. Incredible support here for both buying the 407 and investing in better transit.
Kaboom! New non-partisan polling from @Thetrilliumca shows that only 12% of Ontario voters still think that Doug Ford's 413 Highway & 401 tunnel schemes are the right way to solve congestion. 🧵
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Mayor Olivia Chow to Premier Doug Ford on bike lanes: “Stay in your lane, open the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West LRTs and fix the chaos at Metrolinx.” #onpoli
Ripping up our roads will make people less safe, make traffic worse, and put lives at risk. Full stop. I challenge the Premier to talk to people who have lost loved ones on our roads and hear their stories. It might be hard for the province to do two things at once but, as
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A huge and passionate crowd gathered at Queen's Park to let @fordnation know that bicycle infrastructure saves lives and is a key part of *actually* addressing traffic congestion. More people biking = less people driving. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli
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"Our lives are not expendable. We need safe streets everywhere," says Kendrew Pape of @FFSafeStreets, who lost his sister to road violence. #Rally4SafeStreets
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Observation: all of the major streets that are targeted for bike lane removal have major below grade transit, either a subway or an LRT (and the LRT not running is 100% Ford’s fault). So, that whole thing about ‘no other options’ is just bunk. ALSO, over 1,000,000 people
Now we know which bike lanes the Ford government is after: 🚲 Bloor St W 🚲 Yonge St 🚲 University Ave 🚲 Eglinton St W. Cyclists have a right to safety and security. Come to Queens Park Wednesday at 5pm to fight for your rights! https://t.co/suEDdL1W5h
#topoli #bikeTO
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Bike lanes mean business: 93% of customers walk, cycle or take transit to visit Bloor Annex BIA local businesses and only 7% arrive by car, says local BIA reps. And business has been growing since the lanes were installed in 2016.
Inbox: Group rep'ing merchants in the Bloor-Annex corridor tell @fordnation that bike lanes help businesses: “Are we building highways or are we building main streets? Because highways don’t encourage main street economic activity.”
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Ontario Premier promises to take bike lanes off Bloor. Inbox, BIA repping 270 businesses there says they: "a firm believer in the actual evidence that concludes that bike lanes on Bloor Street are good for business, improve safety for all road users, and reduce congestion"
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Inbox: Group rep'ing merchants in the Bloor-Annex corridor tell @fordnation that bike lanes help businesses: “Are we building highways or are we building main streets? Because highways don’t encourage main street economic activity.”
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Imagine if kids and caregivers felt safe enough to walk and bike to school? Counterintuitively, we'd have less congested roads #onpoli #biketo
School drop off accounts for between 25% and 40% of morning rush hour in London, UK. Let that sink in. We need more opportunities to get kids and caregivers out of cars, not less:
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School drop off accounts for between 25% and 40% of morning rush hour in London, UK. Let that sink in. We need more opportunities to get kids and caregivers out of cars, not less:
airqualitynews.com
Data shows that up to 43% of car trips in some parts of London are linked to the school drop off, as a Europe-wide campaign to urge city leaders to create new school streets launches in the city....
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