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The problem when the bike lanes were put in, is that they kept the parking. So one person turning either direction blocks movement as there is no room left for turn lanes.
They blame the bike lanes, but no one blames street parking. The claim is that no parking will put companies out of business, but the same decision made gridlock traffic worse which is presumably worse for business.
Street parking never helps traffic, bike usage does. So tear out bike lanes? Genius.
That's not really true. Most of the arteries with bike lanes like Bloor, College, Davenport, etc. explicitly don't have parking at the corners and have the extra turn lanes.
Bloor is always the example.