Etobicoke cycling survey

Peter Milczyn, City Councillor for Etobicoke - Lakeshore has results for an unscientific survey of ward citizens and their cycling habits and views. We don't know how many people responded to the survey, and those who did respond are pre-selected to want to respond and perhaps liked Milczyn. Still there are some interesting trends for a Toronto suburb.

Some highlights:

• 90% own a bike
• 27% commute by bike
• 61% use existing bike lanes
• 41% would ride on a road with no bike lane, 39% only at certain times of day
• 55% fully support bike lanes, 26% in some locations
• most suitable locations for bike lanes: local roads 14%, collector roads 14%, minor arterial roads 19%, major arterial roads 12%, pathways and parks 22%, mixture of above 16%, nowhere 3%
• 38% see cyclist safety as the biggest concern with bike lanes, 16% see increased traffic congestion, 32% see disjointed bike lanes as biggest concern
• 58% would bike more often if more bike lanes were introduced
• 65% of drivers willng to share roads with cyclists
• 46% willing to give up a lane of traffic for dedicated bike lane, 23% only on certain roads
• with increasing price of gas, those that will consider switching from car commuting to cycling - 22%, public transit 24%, car pooling 8%, other 6%, not relevant 40% [not relevant because they don't commute by car?]
• the intersections of the greatest concern for pedestrians: Six Points interchange, Bloor St. W. at Royal York, Kipling, Islington
• 70% feel bicycles should not be required to register as a road user and pay a fee
• 53% feel that Bloor bike lanes west of Kipling are beneficial, 19% say time will tell