This bill cannot be allowed…

This bill cannot be allowed to pass. The proposals for removing our most important bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge Street, and University Ave represent an atrocious waste of public funds, will add more traffic to Toronto’s core, and cost lives.

Bike lanes are safe, offer faster routes for more people to commute through the city, and are growing every year in use. Every cyclist that uses the bike lanes is one less car on the road, they alleviate congestion, limit pollution, and offer safe healthy transportation means as a option for the vast majority of commuters through the city. We just finished construction in these routes!!! DO NOT TEAR UP OUR ROADS AGAIN.

These lanes will continue to see growing use as the data shows. City residents need to be able to bike safely through the city, not everyone has a car and if you force more people to drive all the time the roads are just going to get way more congested! There’s already no parking to support the current amount of cars driving around. With our population exploding this is going to get worse and worse. This bill is a shame, and an emotional proposition that ignores what the real outcomes will be for all commuters.

It’s a giant waist of our tax payer dollars - OUR money! This will take us back decades to a time when cyclists were getting run over and killed regularly and the people pushing this through should stop and really think about the lives they will cost when there are no safe bike lanes along our main corridors. The roads will simply fill up with more cars without alternative transportation methods. Commute times will not improve.

Bike lanes increase access to local businesses and business grows with bike lanes. Not the opposite.

Cars can use the side streets!!! Anyone that drives (myself included) knows to use the barren side streets.