This proposed legislation is…

This proposed legislation is ill-informed and outright backwards.

Bike lanes keep cyclists safe and allow active transportation. If bike lanes are removed, cyclists would shift to cars and transit, further straining the already crowded system. Cyclists would bike on the road, slowing down car traffic and ending up in a dangerous situation. Cyclists, out of fear of being on the road, may also bike on the sidewalks.

Bike lanes on major roads like University, Yonge, and Bloor, allow communities better access to the shops and restaurants along these streets. They further allow cyclists to cross natural and human-made barriers like rivers and 400-series highways, for which there is often no safe way to cross on smaller side streets.

This legislation is borne of vindictiveness, is not based on evidence that bike lanes are slowing car traffic, and will set us back a decade.

If you pass this legislation, cyclists will die. But I don't think this government cares.
If you pass this legislation, I will bike on the road on Bloor, and take a full lane, as is my right. I will carry a sign on my back letting the angry drivers behind me know that the Doug Ford government did this.