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Toronto Star, December 16, 2024, Letter to Editor
Mark McQueen, whose bio includes his role as a former adviser to PM Brian Mulroney, clearly doesn’t have any expertise in road safety. In suggesting that bike lanes are not a good investment, he points to the six cyclist deaths in the city in 2024, while missing the obvious point that five of those six deaths were on roads without bike lanes. The other death was on a road with a blocked bike lane. His figures for new bike lanes in Toronto are also wildly exaggerated, while his comments on emergency response times misstate his cited source. I’m sure McQueen is an expert in various fields, but none of those fields include cycling safety.
 Albert Koehl, co-ordinator Community Bikeways, Toronto
