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CBC News · Posted: Jun 20, 2019 11:20 AM
More than 150 doctors in Toronto and the GTA are taking a stand for cyclists by calling on the city to extend the existing Bloor bike lanes east onto the Danforth.
The Doctors For Safe Cycling advocacy group will be bringing their message to city hall, where they will hold a press conference later Thursday
Opinion: Danforth bike lanes are key to a safer, more prosperous city
Written by Dr. Peter Sakuls, a Toronto physician, and co-founder of Doctors for Safe Cycling, and Gideon Forman, a transportation policy analyst at the David Suzuki Foundation.
Imagine if the Bloor subway ended abruptly at the Don Valley.
It would be an enormous inconvenience for transit riders, to put it mildly. But this is pretty much the situation cyclists face: there’s a bike lane across the Viaduct, but as soon as riders reach Danforth Avenue, there’s no lane to protect them.
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Doctor’s Prescription For Cycling
As family physicians, our primary responsibility is to serve individuals and families, as well as to identify and address their immediate health needs in clinics and hospitals. But if our goal is optimal health for all our patients, we must also speak out about the upstream causes of illness and injury that we witness and intervene on the conditions that “shape and constrain wellbeing” in our communities.
In the past, our profession has successfully advocated for public health interventions that improve health and safety, such as the restriction of pesticides and the regulation of indoor cigarette smoking. By advocating for safer cycling infrastructure, family physicians can substantially improve the health of all our patients.
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This story is part of CBC Toronto's new road safety series, Safer Streets. Whether you drive, bike, or walk, we want to hear your stories about sharing the road. What areas concern you? How do you want to make our streets safer?
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Dr. Samantha Green, Co-founder, Doctors for Safe Cycling, joined The Exchange with Matt Gurney to talk about the road-safety campaign.
