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David Soknacki, the former city budget chief who is running for mayor, wants to remove all parking from main streets in the heart of Toronto to make room for cyclists and help move traffic faster.

“On arterial roads, we ban on-street parking at all times,” Mr. Soknacki said in an interview this week. “That would free up real estate to allow for cycling and better flow of traffic.”

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“Something like Power Street or Toronto Street I would think would not be arterial,” he said.

Asked whether the suggestion would remove thousands of parking spots downtown, Mr. Soknacki replied, “probably.” He said he would phase the ban.

Mr. Soknacki said he defines the core, for this idea, as the area between Spadina Avenue and Jarvis Street, south of Bloor Street.

In a campaign for the mayor’s chair that has so far been somewhat short on radical ideas, we finally have a radical idea. And it didn’t take very long for a politician to pounce.