Prioritizing car lanes in a…

Prioritizing car lanes in a dense, growing, urban area is poor city planning.

You can move much more people (in a method safer for pedestrians) with a bike lane than a car lane. And a bike lane only takes up half a car lane, so you get two bike lanes for the price of 1 car lane.

Toronto side streets cannot replace the arterial bike lanes, because we don't have side streets that continue for long stretches, if we did, cars would be already using them.

If we don't make cycling safe and efficient then no one will cycle. And if no one cycles then our streets will remain congested.

This act is like calling a ban on salads the, "keeping you healthy" act.