Debunking High Park car myths
How many myths have you heard about Toronto's High Park Movement Strategy (HPMS) expanding the ban on cars from weekends to 7 days a week? Am I missing any from the list below? On May 9, I visited High Park to see if those opposed to the HPMS sincerely believe some of the arguments often repeated online, or if there is some nuance lost on social media. It seems that they really do believe much of the disinformation and lies, and they have only doubled down on their misleading and disingenuous tactics over the past few years. 🤦♂️ Families will no longer be able to have picnics in the park. 🤦♂️ Parents and coaches will be unable to bring sporting equipment to their Little League games. 🤦♂️ The elderly and infirm will have no way to visit the park. 🤦♂️ Banning cars will mean the park is only for the young and fit. 🤦♂️ Everyone eventually will need a car to get around. 🤦♂️ The Allotment Gardens will wither and die with nobody to care for them. 🤦♂️ The number of visitors to the park will collapse. 🤦♂️ The businesses inside High Park will suffer from the lack of patrons. 🤦♂️ Cyclists are more dangerous than cars inside the park. 🤦♂️ Cycling is actually safer when cars are allowed, because pedestrians know to stay on the sidewalk. 🤦♂️ More people have been hurt by cyclists than drivers in the park. 🤦♂️ There has never been a collision between a car and a pedestrian, but many between a bike and a pedestrian. 🤦♂️ Cars never speed in the park. Cyclists always race through the park. 🤦♂️ Drivers always stop at stop signs. Cyclists never stop at stop signs. 🤦♂️ The number of assaults on park visitors will rise. 🤦♂️ If TTC buses are allowed in the park, then so should cars. 🤦♂️ Buses sometimes only carry a few people, and are thus no more efficient than cars, while taking up more room and polluting more than cars. 🤦♂️ The city has a legal obligation to the Howard family, the donors of the park, to allow cars into the park. 🤦♂️ Not allowing cars into the park is a Charter violation, as well as a criminal act under the OHRC, the ACA, and the AODA.
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