While the safety of all…

While the safety of all modes of traffic is important, removing car lanes to accommodate bikes, e-bikes and scooters is counterproductive. I live in the downtown area and have noted badly impeded car and truck traffic due to lane closures.

Trucks are forced to squeeze around traffic islands into oncoming traffic when making turns.
King St East and West is closed off to through-traffic to make way for street cars, forcing cars into other streets including Front Street. Further south, the Esplanade was chopped up to discourage the ensuing overflow from going there. For myself, the Esplanade was a quick way to pick up my friend to go shopping and then return home. With the introduction of one-way streets I now must go up to Front Street and add to the traffic density. The closing off of lanes also impacts businesses in the area, with deliveries being missed, and customers not being able to access the stores in an efficient manner.

People say that cars are environmentally toxic, but no one talks about the efficiency of hybrid cars, or the sociability of getting a friend to an appointment, or the independent ability to transport goods.
After the petrification of the Covid issue, Toronto has to catch up on infrastructure repair at the same time as handing out permits for the construction of high rises. This of course leads to more lane closures and construction vehicles. While deleting lanes in favour of what is seasonal traffic is a bad idea, the timing here leaves this writer speechless.

I have found out that the bike lane planning was created by persons who do not live in Toronto and do not have to live with the consequences.

Of utmost concern is any emergency vehicle getting to its destination in a timely way. Also, no one planned for the safety of pedestrians embarking or debarking from buses, Wheel trans, or cars. There have been deaths from e-bike collisions but this is not considered enough of a problem to merit safety instruction, licensing or insurance.
While I have provided supporting links, the above outlines my direct observations of the traffic chaos in my own neighbourhood.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.