Thank you so much Johnny! A really important video that does show how dangerous “alot of streets” are;poorly designed streets, and lack of properly designed streets for pedestrian safety.
I used to plough that section of road many moons ago. I had a Honda pass me, north of Bloor while I was salting the road. South of Bloor, traffic slowed. As I approached the entrance to High park, where the 506 streetcar turns around, I noticed a Honda arguing with a tree. The idiot who passed me was on the step of the truck, yelling at me because the road was not salted. Slow down and drive according to road conditions. I also am not a fan of Drug Ford.
It seems to me that the Liberals were in power way longer than Doug Ford so it's funny how Ford gets the blame. Stupid Canadians always vote in socialist and then are surprised that everything goes to crap. Just look at our prime minister. I wouldn't be too worried about a small street in Toronto while the whole country is in a big decline.
Absolutely another beautiful sharing adventure piece of work and you doing such an amazing job ! .. gorgeous filming edition captured camera work and thanks again and stay safe my friend and best regards from Montreal QC ! ..
Thank you for the long walk video and news about traffic accidents. Steeles, High Park... The Gardiner and Lakeshore Blvd. sure brought back memories. I now live with my wife in Port Moody, BC. Thanks again
My own high school stomping grounds, Dundas and Bloor. Can't believe Keele Station still looks like it did in the 90s. So many memories. Used to frequent a local arcade just north of the station off of Bloor. Pockets Arcade. May pops rest in peace! Thanks for sharing good sir. Liked and subscribed!
Good morning, Johnny! Be careful while walking this dangerous street there in Toronto. It looks unsafe here! Happy Holidays from London, England 🏴 🎅🎄🎁
I drove on that road for the first time yesterday and it is really more like an urban highway than a road….quite dangerous as cars were speeding in both directions.
7:37 Yes! And prior to Doug Ford changing the wards in 2018, Gord Perks’ Ward (Ward 14 Parkdale) started on the east side of Parkside Dr, while his partner councillor Sarah Doucette’s Ward (Ward 13 High Park) started on the west side of Parkside Dr
Parkside has always been a major arterial road in the west end of Toronto for decades. Why are people just figuring this out now? Putting bike lanes there would be insane.
I see people regularly in Scarborough who always drive less than the speed limit… on this street it would be like 2 cars driving side by side at 30km lol
It was a kids park you saw through the view from Parkside. It’s a big wooden fortress. There is a sword in the stone there too. Cool little spot opposite the park zoo.
PARKSIDE DR IS NOT A DANGEROUS STREET.... DUDE YOU'RE WALKING ON A SIDE WALK.... IF YOU WANT TO CROSS THE STREET TO ACCESS HIGH PARK, USE THE DESIGNATED CROSS-WALKS, AND INTERSECTIONS WHERE THERE ARE STREET LIGHTS. IT'S ONLY DANGEROUS IF YOU BREAK THE LAW AND JAYWALK
Dufferin is also one of the most dangerous streets in the city. But I DO NOT recommend bike lanes on Dufferin, it would be total insanity, making a bad street even worse, especially on the hill.
I’ve was born, and have lived here all of my 56 years….I’ve travelled all across the world, there no street in Toronto that isn’t dangerous! We have the traffic from hell…I live at Bloor and Parliment, yet it takes me over 30 minute to reach the on ramp to the Gardiner, only what? 2 kilometres away? I’ve been rear ended 3 times on the DVP alone, all by the Hurontario exit, and came back to to my parked car at the beaches to find my dumper ripped off by someone’s trailer hitch! That just the beginning…it’s maddening, our insurance goes up for things not our fault, thanks to brainless jerks who don’t care about anyone or anything but themselves!
I agree with you - I've often wondered if the urban environment is responsible/creates an atmosphere for inexcuseable behavior modelling ppl witness and are victims of continually in large cities such as Toronto!!
Although I do not live in Toronto any more I do know this road. My brother and sister-in-law live on Bloor just past the north end High Park gates so if they take the Gardiner to head back to the old country (Oakville) and come back into town, its either Kingsway, Windermere or Parkside. the other side of course has Indian Road, Symington and Roncesvalles but Parkside is a straight up down 2 lanes per side shot to Bloor. A dragstrip when not clogged. Another poster pointed out poor road design (correctly) and drivers with a sense of entitlement. Those two alone are a deadly combination. Stupid, crazy suggestion but a thought. Back in the day, the Le Mans 24 hour race (every June) had a straight known as the Mulsanne Straight and before changing it to what I am going to suggest, the cars could do 240mph (rare but a few did). And yes, there were many accidents and fatalities. They put in chicanes or lanes to where you had to slow down and brake before taking off again. It pissed the drivers off but it also saved lives. If you could somewhere somehow put 3 in from Lakeshore to Bloor this could help reduce the collisions and fatalities. Addendum: Watched the video again. (yes John we study what you video) and you can see the road is totally outdated. being from Windsor we understand crappy outdated roads and an ineffective municipal govt. a camera will not solve anything other than being seeing to be doing something or a glorified revenue band-aid. re-design and fix the damn road.
Even if bike lanes are hard to be placed or rejected with the current ontario bill, This street desperately needs a road diet like adding trees in the middle and turn it into a avenue. Even if Parkside still has 4 lanes, Visually it would look narrower so drivers slow down. Lastly ,whenever I need to go North or South in this area as a bike messenger I just use Indian Road or even Roncesvalles for the scenery and shops.
Here in Niagara same speeding and safety issues. It's so easy for todays motorists to speed with these new hi horsepower vehicles and so much distracted driving. I have to have my head on a swivel after a few close calls when I go for my walks.
Used to live on Glen lake....i can attest to being one of those dangerous drivers on Parkside. If you timed the lights right you could smooth sail on up to Bloor.
@ We didn't have bike lanes. We used the road or the sidewalks. Worked well. Total waste of tax payer's money for a couple of bikers for a couple of months.
So anyway it was residents of the street who called it “incredibly dangerous” in a news report. It’s not something JS came up with. They’re referring to the speeding and lack of care shown by drivers, not referring to crime.
Taking away lanes is not the solution. Bike lanes are good but not at the cost of the Rds. They need to expand on the sides. We are a car country and and that needs to be accepted..also lowering the speed limit doesn't stop the crazy people going 100...it only impeded the rest of us
When a speed limit is 50km/h and you get a ticket for 59 km/h I say good. . When you take into account the inaccuracies of speedometers we are left with about 5km/h of wiggle room. For our American adversaries that is like 3 mph
Doug Ford has a 37% approval rating. His approval will drop even further when he can no longer Blame Trudeau for everything. Merry Christmas to you as well.
Speed limit way too slow is a safety hazard, and even 50 km an hour is way too slow. Just looking at the video there is no reason the street should not have a limit of at least 60 km/h.
Well when I lived at Dufferin and Bloor I would take either Parkside or Jameson depending on traffic/if I took lakeshore or the gardener and I can say that people have always driven like morons on Parkside
Placing a dedicated bike lane on the west side of Parkside Drive would be an EXTREMELY bad idea: it would add congestion to an important north-south route used by over 21,000 commuters each day. The traffic was busy even during this video, which was not at peak time of day. I support the Province completely in its approach to ending dedicated bike lanes on busy routes. The traffic flow in Toronto has been impeded by bike lanes across the City, which an insufficient number of people use. I think the City should stop wasting public funds on reducing traffic lanes. Bike users can use the north-south route through High Park.
@@elliotjordan2326 In this case, the plan is to use a dedicated lane -- one of the two south-bound lanes and make it into a bike plan. This will mean that two lanes of south-bound traffic will be reduced to one. This will cause congestion. A bike lane in itself, if there is a dedicated lane that does not use an existing lane of travel, will not cause congestion. BUT, THE USE OF AN EXISTING LANE OF TRAFFIC AND CONVERTING IT TO A BIKE LANE, WILL CAUSE CONGESTION. In this case, Parkside Drive is an important north-south route connecting Keele-Street and Weston-Road motorists with Lakeshore Road and beyond. To cause congestion here would be a very, very bad idea. It might even cause traffic to move to Indian Road to the east or to Ellis Avenue to the west or even through High Park to avoid congestion. I can say that I have used Parkside Drive and found it a useful thoroughfare on my way to and from downtown Toronto. I have never found it to be "dangerous". I have driven my bike south along Indian Road and through High Park. I never drove my bike along Parkside Drive as it has always been busy with traffic. I say leave Parkside Drive as it is. DO NOT PUT ANY DEDICATED BIKE LANE IN PLACE OF THE WESTERN-MOST SOUTH-BOUND LANE WOULD BE A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. DON'T DO IT!
@@esssquire9361 I don't know what you re blabbering on about but bike lanes don't add conjestion. Look up Dutch road design, watch the channel Not Just Bikes. Stop think your opinion is some how educated.
@@elliotjordan2326 "Dutch road design" does not apply to Parkside Drive. It is axiomatic that, if the Toronto planners take out one southbound lane and replace it with a dedicated bike lane, that WILL cause south-bound traffic to be congested on Parkside Drive. The south-bound motorists on Parkside Drive NEED two lanes of traffic, given the volume of traffic. To squeeze two lanes of traffic into one is a very BAD idea. I am not talking about bike lanes being bad in general. The design should be such that it fits in seamlessly into the total traffic dynamic: a separate lane for bikes without taking away a lane from traffic.
Bike lanes are rarely used for the cost. Cyclists preferringmto be out in traffic proper. Kitchener spent a firtune on bike lanes, and cross city paths. Not used. Spend the money on affordable housing.
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I noticed a pay to park kiosk (or whatever they're called) on the side of the street where there's no parking. The street parking was on the other side of the street. That's odd. Also wondering... you said that street parking causes issues with traffic flow. In a residential area like this, where would residents be expected to park? Most of those houses didn't look like they had much off street parking available. Thanks for your vids! Always enjoy them.
@@mark_spit7839 Most of the houses have a driveway or parking pad out front. Houses on corners have parking off the side streets. The rest have laneways off the side streets or via the north-south parallel road behind them. It’s easy to see using Google Streetview.
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Saying another place is worse doesn't disprove that Toronto is not safe. Imagine if the police chief said "don't complain about shootings. Costa Rica is much worse".
Human colostomy bag? I'm not a huge fan of his but seriously.. and a policy note..does anyone care about older/infirm people for whom a car is their only choice? Especially in winter?? There's a lot of us..many of us helped build Toronto.. Talk about one sided..
Everyone cares about the elderly/infirm people who helped build Toronto. The vast majority of people who choose the drive have other options. If they chose to bike or take transit that would keep the roads clear for those who really need to drive.
I am NOT a fan of Doug Ford, but I agree with him on bike lanes, they do NOT belong on major thoroughfares. Bike lanes are only suitable on certain streets in Toronto (Davenport is a good example). Otherwise they just plug things up, and become a hazard themselves. For example, on Bloor, where they have the ridiculous scheme of bike lanes beside the sidewalk, and THEN parking beside the bike lane, the first time I encountered this I almost got taken out by a bike, as I stepped into the bike lane, trying to make my way through the parked cars. A totally hazardous and ridiculous scheme.
It’s called a parking protected bike lane. The parked cars provide a barrier to protect cyclists from traffic, rather than putting the soft, squishy humans between traffic and parked cars. Just like you would before stepping into the road, look both ways before stepping into the bike lane.
@@dylanluhowy It's a bad idea. In "solving" one problem they just create another. Soft squishy pedestrian has an obstacle course to navigate just to cross the road. The parked cars give an illusion of safety, while in reality you have a 6 foot wide bicycle lane, with silent 2-wheelers whipping by at 40km/hr inches from the sidewalk.
when they lowered the speed limits on every road by 10km a couple years ago-Which I’m guessing affects the outer boroughs like Scarborough, Etobicoke etc than downtown, but yikes it sure does suck
If we make the speed limits 10 kph there will be no lethal accidents. But that defeats the purpose of driving which is to get to places quickly. So we decrease speed limits, add a minute or two to every street and end up adding an extra half hour to a commute. Like any pipe… you slow down the flow you will cause congestion. BTW The province has jurisdiction. Cities are created by the provincial government and are subordinate to the province. The province gives cities the powers they have and can take them away whenever they want.
Yeah the province can take away the city’s powers. Ultimately they could abolish municipal powers altogether. Do we want all of our local decisions being made at Queen’s Park?
@ Did I say I do? It’s normally best to leave local matters with local government. But sometimes local government decisions have to be overridden by the province when they determine they are detrimental. What would you say if your local government approved a toxic dump a block away from your home? You’d probably want the province to step in and prevent it.
Reduced speed limits and other anti-car measures would be much more tolerable if we had the level of rapid public transit that one finds in many big European or Asian cities. Toronto has one of the worst average commute times.
@ Who decides which bike lanes are “detrimental?” Why is the province in a better position to make that determination than the municipality? We can’t just ask the province to step in whenever we disagree with a local decision. What if we flipped it and required the province to approve every time a city wanted to remove a bike lane, add a traffic lane, remove a speed camera, or increase a speed limit?
@ Totally agree. We had the best transit system in North America. Won awards. But then we stopped building. One subway station every year or two since the 80’s would have made a huge difference. That’s what happens when people want lower taxes.
One wonders if it would be possible for communities where Il Duce Ford is threatening bike lane removal and a ban on further cycling infrastructure to mount class action lawsuits or even band together as a coalition to mount suits against the province? Unfortunately I am not a legal expert by any means but surely something can be done. Anyway keep up the good fight mate and thanks.
@@lisadeeyoungJohnny seemed to have thought it was safe enough to jay walk. I get it, it's not a great street to walk and it needs more safety improvements.
Based on the statistics and history of the street, it is dangerous relative to most Toronto Streets and has a history of fatal and serious collisions. As for the jaywalking comment, I did not jaywalk... it's perfectly legal to cross away from an intersection in Toronto 🙄
@@dylanluhowy I guess you don't know that not Every driveway can is big enough multiple vehicles and you said that not every street has on street parking. Obviously yes that's true and the streets that allow on street parking will have cars parked on the street like this road.
Thank you so much Johnny! A really important video that does show how dangerous “alot of streets” are;poorly designed streets, and lack of properly designed streets for pedestrian safety.
Always good to see areas of the city we don’t get to often-thank you!
I used to plough that section of road many moons ago. I had a Honda pass me, north of Bloor while I was salting the road. South of Bloor, traffic slowed. As I approached the entrance to High park, where the 506 streetcar turns around, I noticed a Honda arguing with a tree. The idiot who passed me was on the step of the truck, yelling at me because the road was not salted. Slow down and drive according to road conditions. I also am not a fan of Drug Ford.
It seems to me that the Liberals were in power way longer than Doug Ford so it's funny how Ford gets the blame. Stupid Canadians always vote in socialist and then are surprised that everything goes to crap. Just look at our prime minister. I wouldn't be too worried about a small street in Toronto while the whole country is in a big decline.
Merry Christmas 🎄 many blessings to all good citizens of Toronto!
Absolutely another beautiful sharing adventure piece of work and you doing such an amazing job ! .. gorgeous filming edition captured camera work and thanks again and stay safe my friend and best regards from Montreal QC ! ..
And the local Councillor of over 18 years does nothing about it because he doesn’t care for that part of the ward.
We just started getting speed cameras in San Francisco ... I think it's a great idea because people drive so dangerously here.
Keep up the great Video's, I have tried other TO walking vids and so far I find yours Superior. (From Fredericton NB)
How strange. We always considered High Park and Roncesville area the quietest place in Toronto.
Not anymore
Lol, feels downtown-ish esp. on weekends.
You are right about people who destroy cameras and property
Thank you for the long walk video and news about traffic accidents. Steeles, High Park... The Gardiner and Lakeshore Blvd. sure brought back memories.
I now live with my wife in Port Moody, BC. Thanks again
My own high school stomping grounds, Dundas and Bloor. Can't believe Keele Station still looks like it did in the 90s. So many memories. Used to frequent a local arcade just north of the station off of Bloor. Pockets Arcade. May pops rest in peace!
Thanks for sharing good sir. Liked and subscribed!
I think city needs to install a camera to record the person who keeps cutting down the speed camera.
TTC still using the old subway trains on Line 2. Happy Holidays Johnny.
Yes the Bombardier T1 trains built in 1995-2001. My Uncle drives them
Line 2 has slightly less ridership than line 1.
ARE YOU PREPARED TO START A GO FUND 4 THE TTC?.
28:40 Car-centric design. Here they had one of those “Wait for Gap” signs, but replaced it with a proper “Stop for Pedestrians.”
Good morning, Johnny! Be careful while walking this dangerous street there in Toronto. It looks unsafe here! Happy Holidays from London, England 🏴 🎅🎄🎁
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I drove on that road for the first time yesterday and it is really more like an urban highway than a road….quite dangerous as cars were speeding in both directions.
we need more photo radar
19:52 You know that castle playground got arson in 2012?
7:37 Yes! And prior to Doug Ford changing the wards in 2018, Gord Perks’ Ward (Ward 14 Parkdale) started on the east side of Parkside Dr, while his partner councillor Sarah Doucette’s Ward (Ward 13 High Park) started on the west side of Parkside Dr
Great video!
Thank you for your videos
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I miss Toronto. We moved away in 1988. I love those old streetlights they are stylish and give the streets character.
Parkside has always been a major arterial road in the west end of Toronto for decades. Why are people just figuring this out now? Putting bike lanes there would be insane.
And yet there’s room for on-street parking.
It's such a nice pretty street
Had no idea it's so dangerous.
Nobody is driving 40km/hr that’s for sure
I see people regularly in Scarborough who always drive less than the speed limit… on this street it would be like 2 cars driving side by side at 30km lol
We have speed cameras here we need them to keep our streets safe
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It was a kids park you saw through the view from Parkside. It’s a big wooden fortress. There is a sword in the stone there too. Cool little spot opposite the park zoo.
It probably doesnt help that there are no qualifications necessary to acquire a driver's license in Ontario.
@@buckodonnghaile4309 we need more photo radar
PARKSIDE DR IS NOT A DANGEROUS STREET.... DUDE YOU'RE WALKING ON A SIDE WALK.... IF YOU WANT TO CROSS THE STREET TO ACCESS HIGH PARK, USE THE DESIGNATED CROSS-WALKS, AND INTERSECTIONS WHERE THERE ARE STREET LIGHTS. IT'S ONLY DANGEROUS IF YOU BREAK THE LAW AND JAYWALK
A few months ago I heard a story on the news about a teenage girl who was walking on these tracks 🙈
Love the houses
Good morning
Dufferin is also one of the most dangerous streets in the city. But I DO NOT recommend bike lanes on Dufferin, it would be total insanity, making a bad street even worse, especially on the hill.
I’ve was born, and have lived here all of my 56 years….I’ve travelled all across the world, there no street in Toronto that isn’t dangerous! We have the traffic from hell…I live at Bloor and Parliment, yet it takes me over 30 minute to reach the on ramp to the Gardiner, only what? 2 kilometres away? I’ve been rear ended 3 times on the DVP alone, all by the Hurontario exit, and came back to to my parked car at the beaches to find my dumper ripped off by someone’s trailer hitch! That just the beginning…it’s maddening, our insurance goes up for things not our fault, thanks to brainless jerks who don’t care about anyone or anything but themselves!
@@GIguy There is no Hurontario exist on DVP.
@@mikevideo79He meant 427 😂
@ yes there is
@@Circus1990 there is no exit to Hurontario from 427 either😂
I agree with you - I've often wondered if the urban environment is responsible/creates an atmosphere for inexcuseable behavior modelling ppl witness and are victims of continually in large cities such as Toronto!!
Although I do not live in Toronto any more I do know this road. My brother and sister-in-law live on Bloor just past the north end High Park gates so if they take the Gardiner to head back to the old country (Oakville) and come back into town, its either Kingsway, Windermere or Parkside. the other side of course has Indian Road, Symington and Roncesvalles but Parkside is a straight up down 2 lanes per side shot to Bloor. A dragstrip when not clogged. Another poster pointed out poor road design (correctly) and drivers with a sense of entitlement. Those two alone are a deadly combination. Stupid, crazy suggestion but a thought. Back in the day, the Le Mans 24 hour race (every June) had a straight known as the Mulsanne Straight and before changing it to what I am going to suggest, the cars could do 240mph (rare but a few did). And yes, there were many accidents and fatalities. They put in chicanes or lanes to where you had to slow down and brake before taking off again. It pissed the drivers off but it also saved lives. If you could somewhere somehow put 3 in from Lakeshore to Bloor this could help reduce the collisions and fatalities. Addendum: Watched the video again. (yes John we study what you video) and you can see the road is totally outdated. being from Windsor we understand crappy outdated roads and an ineffective municipal govt. a camera will not solve anything other than being seeing to be doing something or a glorified revenue band-aid. re-design and fix the damn road.
Adding several traffic lights along the road would solve the problem.
Even if bike lanes are hard to be placed or rejected with the current ontario bill, This street desperately needs a road diet like adding trees in the middle and turn it into a avenue. Even if Parkside still has 4 lanes, Visually it would look narrower so drivers slow down.
Lastly ,whenever I need to go North or South in this area as a bike messenger I just use Indian Road or even Roncesvalles for the scenery and shops.
Yeah. Maybe even blocking a whole section between one block for pedestrians only.
Here in Niagara same speeding and safety issues. It's so easy for todays motorists to speed with these new hi horsepower vehicles and so much distracted driving. I have to have my head on a swivel after a few close calls when I go for my walks.
Used to live on Glen lake....i can attest to being one of those dangerous drivers on Parkside. If you timed the lights right you could smooth sail on up to Bloor.
It is quite a narrow street. I’ve gone up and down that stretch several times.
Good camera 📸 view
Great video and important warning about a dangerous street.
Wow now I can remember that area
Talking about "incredibly dangerous", try the blocks around Jane & Finch or Sherbourne & Queen next time 😊
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With the amount of traffic in the city, restricting lanes would be a very bad idea. Too much investment for 6 months of the year.
Keeping things they way they are is no solution and their is no room to add more lanes.
@ We didn't have bike lanes. We used the road or the sidewalks. Worked well. Total waste of tax payer's money for a couple of bikers for a couple of months.
@@joslac5018keeping things the way they are is no solution
So anyway it was residents of the street who called it “incredibly dangerous” in a news report. It’s not something JS came up with. They’re referring to the speeding and lack of care shown by drivers, not referring to crime.
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Being safe better than sorry there's no need for speed
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Taking away lanes is not the solution. Bike lanes are good but not at the cost of the Rds. They need to expand on the sides. We are a car country and and that needs to be accepted..also lowering the speed limit doesn't stop the crazy people going 100...it only impeded the rest of us
Canada is a car country but Toronto isn’t a car city. The roads simply can’t handle the volume of cars, with or without bike lanes.
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What you see at the end of the video is not Mimico.
When a speed limit is 50km/h and you get a ticket for 59 km/h I say good. . When you take into account the inaccuracies of speedometers we are left with about 5km/h of wiggle room. For our American adversaries that is like 3 mph
Doug Ford is doing a great job, but some people nature is complaining. Guess you can not please everyone. Merry Christmas to all. God bless.
Doug Ford has a 37% approval rating. His approval will drop even further when he can no longer Blame Trudeau for everything.
Merry Christmas to you as well.
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we need more photo radar
Speed limit way too slow is a safety hazard, and even 50 km an hour is way too slow. Just looking at the video there is no reason the street should not have a limit of at least 60 km/h.
i check these time to time to see if i can see my bike that got stolen 😭
Heal and move on 😂
@@Ban00 mannn i try that bike was hella special to me that was my baby man 😭
Well when I lived at Dufferin and Bloor I would take either Parkside or Jameson depending on traffic/if I took lakeshore or the gardener and I can say that people have always driven like morons on Parkside
fyi…It is High Park, not Hide Park.
Placing a dedicated bike lane on the west side of Parkside Drive would be an EXTREMELY bad idea: it would add congestion to an important north-south route used by over 21,000 commuters each day. The traffic was busy even during this video, which was not at peak time of day. I support the Province completely in its approach to ending dedicated bike lanes on busy routes. The traffic flow in Toronto has been impeded by bike lanes across the City, which an insufficient number of people use. I think the City should stop wasting public funds on reducing traffic lanes. Bike users can use the north-south route through High Park.
Development, construction and poor design are the causes of traffic in the city, not bike lanes. Get a clue.
Bike lanes don't add conjestion
@@elliotjordan2326 In this case, the plan is to use a dedicated lane -- one of the two south-bound lanes and make it into a bike plan. This will mean that two lanes of south-bound traffic will be reduced to one. This will cause congestion. A bike lane in itself, if there is a dedicated lane that does not use an existing lane of travel, will not cause congestion. BUT, THE USE OF AN EXISTING LANE OF TRAFFIC AND CONVERTING IT TO A BIKE LANE, WILL CAUSE CONGESTION.
In this case, Parkside Drive is an important north-south route connecting Keele-Street and Weston-Road motorists with Lakeshore Road and beyond. To cause congestion here would be a very, very bad idea. It might even cause traffic to move to Indian Road to the east or to Ellis Avenue to the west or even through High Park to avoid congestion.
I can say that I have used Parkside Drive and found it a useful thoroughfare on my way to and from downtown Toronto. I have never found it to be "dangerous".
I have driven my bike south along Indian Road and through High Park. I never drove my bike along Parkside Drive as it has always been busy with traffic.
I say leave Parkside Drive as it is. DO NOT PUT ANY DEDICATED BIKE LANE IN PLACE OF THE WESTERN-MOST SOUTH-BOUND LANE WOULD BE A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. DON'T DO IT!
@@esssquire9361 I don't know what you re blabbering on about but bike lanes don't add conjestion. Look up Dutch road design, watch the channel Not Just Bikes. Stop think your opinion is some how educated.
@@elliotjordan2326 "Dutch road design" does not apply to Parkside Drive. It is axiomatic that, if the Toronto planners take out one southbound lane and replace it with a dedicated bike lane, that WILL cause south-bound traffic to be congested on Parkside Drive. The south-bound motorists on Parkside Drive NEED two lanes of traffic, given the volume of traffic. To squeeze two lanes of traffic into one is a very BAD idea.
I am not talking about bike lanes being bad in general. The design should be such that it fits in seamlessly into the total traffic dynamic: a separate lane for bikes without taking away a lane from traffic.
Bike lanes are rarely used for the cost. Cyclists preferringmto be out in traffic proper. Kitchener spent a firtune on bike lanes, and cross city paths. Not used. Spend the money on affordable housing.
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As a black man, I have to admit, my people are increasingly making the community dangerous. We only have ourselves to blame.
@@Ynalaw Judas Hippocrite
Judas, is that U ?
@arleneparris3446 That's very judgmental. It's probably you.
There are no incredibly dangerous streets in Toronto.
I can see the slide
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I noticed a pay to park kiosk (or whatever they're called) on the side of the street where there's no parking. The street parking was on the other side of the street. That's odd. Also wondering... you said that street parking causes issues with traffic flow. In a residential area like this, where would residents be expected to park? Most of those houses didn't look like they had much off street parking available. Thanks for your vids! Always enjoy them.
Lots of people park on the streets clearly for a reason in this area but this guy clearly doesn't understand that
The houses have driveways or there are laneways at the back. The problem is that each house now has more than one car.
@@karagi101 very few of these houses have a driveway and there is no laneway for garages behind the houses either.
@@mark_spit7839 Most of the houses have a driveway or parking pad out front. Houses on corners have parking off the side streets. The rest have laneways off the side streets or via the north-south parallel road behind them. It’s easy to see using Google Streetview.
America BHA put the bike in order to clear a space for the movils, they from the American Authority, so we have bikes to replace in some sense the cars passing by on the main streets including streets while we´re not talking about the avenues the Americans which is another issue for the American Authority here in the American city, America in this places has everything digitalized since we are one of the ten American cities which are digital so the American can park using the web net on a number of streets basically instead of avenues the American Authority are worried about the main streets, the Americans are focusing, an American salute to the canadians which is American, supergreat is America 🇦🇷
"trash humans" because they take down speed cameras? You're a very bright person!
Dangerous?.....come to South America and i'll show you dangerous lol.....this is pretty quiet and pleasant to walk around
Saying another place is worse doesn't disprove that Toronto is not safe. Imagine if the police chief said "don't complain about shootings. Costa Rica is much worse".
lived their my whole life...ALWAYS felt safe
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Human colostomy bag? I'm not a huge fan of his but seriously..
and a policy note..does anyone care about older/infirm people for whom a car is their only choice? Especially in winter?? There's a lot of us..many of us helped build Toronto..
Talk about one sided..
Everyone cares about the elderly/infirm people who helped build Toronto. The vast majority of people who choose the drive have other options. If they chose to bike or take transit that would keep the roads clear for those who really need to drive.
I am NOT a fan of Doug Ford, but I agree with him on bike lanes, they do NOT belong on major thoroughfares. Bike lanes are only suitable on certain streets in Toronto (Davenport is a good example). Otherwise they just plug things up, and become a hazard themselves. For example, on Bloor, where they have the ridiculous scheme of bike lanes beside the sidewalk, and THEN parking beside the bike lane, the first time I encountered this I almost got taken out by a bike, as I stepped into the bike lane, trying to make my way through the parked cars. A totally hazardous and ridiculous scheme.
It’s called a parking protected bike lane. The parked cars provide a barrier to protect cyclists from traffic, rather than putting the soft, squishy humans between traffic and parked cars.
Just like you would before stepping into the road, look both ways before stepping into the bike lane.
@@dylanluhowy It's a bad idea. In "solving" one problem they just create another. Soft squishy pedestrian has an obstacle course to navigate just to cross the road. The parked cars give an illusion of safety, while in reality you have a 6 foot wide bicycle lane, with silent 2-wheelers whipping by at 40km/hr inches from the sidewalk.
Agree 100%
The only thing that will fix Toronto traffic is fewer cars. Sorry folks.
Until they make transit not shit not gonna happen
when they lowered the speed limits on every road by 10km a couple years ago-Which I’m guessing affects the outer boroughs like Scarborough, Etobicoke etc than downtown, but yikes it sure does suck
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Thug Ford thinks he's Trump.
If we make the speed limits 10 kph there will be no lethal accidents.
But that defeats the purpose of driving which is to get to places quickly.
So we decrease speed limits, add a minute or two to every street and end up adding an extra half hour to a commute.
Like any pipe… you slow down the flow you will cause congestion.
BTW The province has jurisdiction. Cities are created by the provincial government and are subordinate to the province.
The province gives cities the powers they have and can take them away whenever they want.
Yeah the province can take away the city’s powers. Ultimately they could abolish municipal powers altogether. Do we want all of our local decisions being made at Queen’s Park?
@ Did I say I do? It’s normally best to leave local matters with local government. But sometimes local government decisions have to be overridden by the province when they determine they are detrimental.
What would you say if your local government approved a toxic dump a block away from your home? You’d probably want the province to step in and prevent it.
Reduced speed limits and other anti-car measures would be much more tolerable if we had the level of rapid public transit that one finds in many big European or Asian cities. Toronto has one of the worst average commute times.
@ Who decides which bike lanes are “detrimental?” Why is the province in a better position to make that determination than the municipality? We can’t just ask the province to step in whenever we disagree with a local decision.
What if we flipped it and required the province to approve every time a city wanted to remove a bike lane, add a traffic lane, remove a speed camera, or increase a speed limit?
@ Totally agree. We had the best transit system in North America. Won awards. But then we stopped building. One subway station every year or two since the 80’s would have made a huge difference.
That’s what happens when people want lower taxes.
One wonders if it would be possible for communities where Il Duce Ford is threatening bike lane removal and a ban on further cycling infrastructure to mount class action lawsuits or even band together as a coalition to mount suits against the province? Unfortunately I am not a legal expert by any means but surely something can be done. Anyway keep up the good fight mate and thanks.
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Not incredibly dangerous. If it were, you would'nt walk it would you? Click bait.
Guess you don't know the history of Parkside, do you?
@@lisadeeyoungJohnny seemed to have thought it was safe enough to jay walk.
I get it, it's not a great street to walk and it needs more safety improvements.
Based on the statistics and history of the street, it is dangerous relative to most Toronto Streets and has a history of fatal and serious collisions.
As for the jaywalking comment, I did not jaywalk... it's perfectly legal to cross away from an intersection in Toronto 🙄
@@AS-rk5vb Do you really think in the context of the content that the word clickbait applies, here? Think about it, lol.
There're no such a thing as traffic car accidents - only collisions!
First 2 minutes and I thought the same thing=2 trains within 2 minutes!...and I haven't lived in TO in almost 40 years, lol.
Parkside drive is not a good street the government should add bike lanes on parkside drive so people can bike more instead of taking the car.
@EthanKiz where's the space for that?
@IDK17849 In the lane currently used for street parking.
@@dylanluhowy and then where are people supposed to park? They will have to widen the road for this to work
@IDK17849 People can park in their driveways? Lots of roads have no street parking.
@@dylanluhowy I guess you don't know that not Every driveway can is big enough multiple vehicles and you said that not every street has on street parking. Obviously yes that's true and the streets that allow on street parking will have cars parked on the street like this road.
I hate doug ford so much