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Re:Toronto Cleared Cars Off a Major Transit Corridor by lambersley on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:06AM (#18450887)
It simply moved the traffic to the parallel streets thus worsening congesting in the city overall. The overall utilization of an expensive infrastructure is very low. The "440%" increase in cyclist is unlikely to equal the number of people moved through that corridor via motor vehicles.
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Re:Toronto Cleared Cars Off a Major Transit Corridor by saq7 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:23AM (#18451031)
It is simply untrue that the overall utilization of the infrastructure is low. Streetcars on King and Queen are usually jam-packed, unless you are in the far east and west ends. The bike lanes running east west on King, Adellaide, and other streets are very heavily used.

And it's true that most people who were driving won't trade in their cars for bikes, for various reasons. I am not sure how that factors in at all here.

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