While the idea of getting…

While the idea of getting their faster is appealing, climate change mitigation relies on alternative modes of transportation including bikes, public transit, etc.

Public money has already been spent to forward the biking initiatives, and traffic flow was affected during construction. The people have already dealt with that.

Further money should not be spent to rip out this progress.

My recommendations include:

1) for existing bike lanes that reduced lane traffic. There should be no change to remove these bike lanes. This avoids further construction, related construction traffic issues, and additional cost.

2) Study how to get better traffic flow through other corridors and on these existing streets.
E.g would an idea like no left turns when travelling on Bloor street or these major corridors help? In these existing bike lane areas could traffic be directed to go right and around to then drive across bloor from a side street. From a side street left turns are okay in this scenerio. I have seen this approach used in New Jersey, USA.
Eg. Is there another corridor of streets that drivers can be directed to use.

3) i would support plans for future bike lanes that require consideration to meet the goal of traffic flow but must also balance the need of safe bike travel across the city, BEFORE making the change for divided bike lanes. Divided bike lanes help bikers and drivers from accidents. These have a place in the city and provide a safe corridor for bikes to ride.

In time, more and more people will use these or choose alternate ways of transportation if they see traffic is untennable or will shift their behaviour to stay local to home.

These are my comments. Thank you