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Mayoral frontrunner John Tory outlined the bare bones of his cycling platform Tuesday, promising a new, modest network of separated bike lanes and a dedicated fund to help maintain lanes that are already in place.

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“I’ll be setting this policy out shortly, but I can tell you right now it will focus itself on maintaining and providing a line item to make sure that cycle lanes are maintained,” Mr. Tory said. “Presently they fit somewhere in the black hole of budgeting and don’t get attended to.”

Mr. Tory also promised to make it easier for cyclists to bike to and from subway stations and vowed to have bicycle infrastructure integrated into every station on his proposed SmartTrack commuter train.

“It’s ridiculous to me that we don’t have cycle infrastructure at every transit station in the city so people have the option to ride their bikes to the transit station,” he said.

Mr. Tory’s announcement came months after rival Olivia Chow laid out an ambitious plan to build 200 kilometres of separated or dedicated bike lanes in the city. Like Mr. Tory, Ms. Chow promised to improve bike lane maintenance and add cycling infrastructure to transit stations.