Councillors Ignores 97% of Commuters Spends $600,000 in Support of Toronto Cyclists Union

April 21, 2010 - PRLog -- The city of Toronto's incumbent councillors, while the city has an annual fiscal crisis, used taxpayer's funds to act as a guarantor for $6000,000. in support of 3% of its live in commuters while ignoring 97% of city wide commuters.

It seems that Denzil Minnan Wong hit the nail on the head when he asked if his fellow incumbent councillors had completely gone insane by supporting a staff report by the city’s works committee to go ahead with bike lanes on one of the busiest internal arterial roadways in the down town core.

As much as we all love to ride bikes and some less than 2% for the entire city use a bicycle as a means of commuting to and from putting a bike lane or a pedestrian lane in the middle of University Avenues is the nuttiest transportation idea yet to come from our left leaning incumbent councillors and city staff.

Existing stats show that a majority 96.7% of workers residing in or around University Avenue in the down town areas either drive, walk, take public transit daily to get to work within that area and 3% at tops cycle to work.

The taxpaying citizens of Toronto should now realize that the only transportation systems being pushed by staff and incumbent councillors both of whom we pay for are ones that will continue to further add traffic congestion in the already chronically congested city core area.

These incumbent councillors and their staff must all give their heads a long hard reality shake and get to work on realistic solutions for solving Toronto’s serious financial problems and looming bankruptcy partially caused by such lunatic ideas for this moment in time.

Toronto’s chronic traffic congestion problems in the down town area will only further be aggravated and increase by continuing with such asinine proposals and draconian measures to further restrict car or truck vehicle access and usage for commercial or other reasons in our city’s core area.

These proposed lane restrictions for bicycles will continue to adversely affect existing levels of access and egress along with the transportation equity within the city core.

The entire city deserves a realistic and affordable transportation plan which encompasses the blending of highways, internal arterial roads, public transit, and pedestrians but not solely at the direct expense of the city’s, visitors or commercial motoring public.

These additional draconian plans to get citizens to use bicycles for commuting purposes by insisting on putting bike lanes on University Avenue is asinine and not the answer to the city’s existing transportation commuter nightmare or the continued fiscal failures of these incumbents.

peterclarketoronto.com

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CLARKE an INDEPENDENT NOT a CAREER Politician or supporter of any political party, special interest group or lobbyists. PETER is your average citizen candidate and answerable only to the people NOT a political party, special interest group or lobbyist