How a Toronto bike lane that went too far sparked a backlash [Video]

Former Toronto councillor John Campbell stands outside the Royal York subway station on Bloor West, to observe how traffic is affected by bike lanes. He opposes the latest extension, from Runnymede to Aberfoyle Crescent and westward to to Resurrection Road.

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Between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., on an unseasonably warm, sunny weekday in October, 18 cyclists travel in the eastbound bike lane on Bloor Street West in Etobicoke, in front of a church, where elderly men and women struggle to climb the stairs to their morning sermon.

Local resident and former Toronto city councillor John Campbell watches ruefully. He voted for the extension of the Bloor West bike lanes from Shaw Street to Runnymede Road when he represented what was then Ward 4 (Etobicoke Centre) from 2014 to 2018.

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