Shocker: Streetcar tracks make lousy bike lanes

On-street experience 1 Minute

I rode my bike through 14 winters. I even did a properly signalled left-hand turn over grand-union intersecting tracks during freezing rain.

So then: Could skinnyfat guys in masks, and could childless gals with master’s degrees and “pronouns in bio,” please quit pretending that the St. Clair streetcar right-of-way would make a great bike lane?

First of all, workmen are set up in those lanes most weekdays. Your plan to ride around them – while, I remind you, hemmed in by tracks?

Guy with concrete saw, and other workman, with truck, all on streetcar tracks
Repair truck with scissor platform (on streetcar tracks, no less)

Next, what’s your plan to get yourselves through St. Clair West station?

Do you have any kind of plan for the intersections at Vaughan, Oakwood, and Lansdowne, with their forests of overlapping tracks?

Can you quit irrationally hating every form of transportation other than your cute little bicyclettes and maybe think things through for half a minute?

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