It’s a city of a nearly a million people, with a housing crisis and rising crime rates, but a plan to install bike lanes along a 5-kilometre stretch of Bloor Street has become one of the most divisive issues in Mississauga’s upcoming mayoral byelection, with sitting councillors accusing mayoral candidates of using the issue to incite “anger and hate” and pit residents against each other.
With the mayoral election less than a month away, one candidate has promised residents that if she wins, she will reopen and reassess the contentious plan that passed in a close 6-4 council vote last summer.
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