I have lived in Bloor West…

I have lived in Bloor West Village since 2004 and in Ontario since 2002. The Conservative Party of Ontario seems built on the assumption that the effete progressives of Toronto are shoving our lifestyles and values down the throat of suburban and rural Ontarians. Yet all I have ever experienced is the opposite. This is yet another example. We LIVE here. Why don't our voices matter more than the people who visit a few days a week? We do not get to, and should not be able to, dictate things like whether a conservative leaning town in rural Ontario gets a bike lane. So why do suburban and rural conservatives get to do that to us? We like these lanes. They offer a different mode of transportation and they calm traffic. Yes that means you'll move more slowly through our neighborhoods, but is it so hard to understand why that might be desirable from a public safety standpoint. Yet another case of Ford ramming his values down the throat of people who don't want them. He wouldn't allow "downtown elites" to dictate what happens in his tony Etobicoke neighborhood. Why should he and his political gang be able to do that to us?