PLEASE take out the bike…

PLEASE take out the bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University. Those are major arteries in Toronto. With the subway running along those streets, ie easy access to another mode of transportation, we do not need bike lanes. That was NOT logical/smart thinking, to put bikes lanes on those specific streets.

There are plenty of other streets that can accommodate bike lanes: secondary streets that are parallel to Bloor, Yonge and University. In fact, make those secondary roads bike-only and no cars. But allow no bikes on major streets.

Also, cyclists do not obey traffic rules. Many don't even use the bikes - they are in the car lanes! They run red lights, or they stop at red lights, but jutt way out into the street, preventing cars from making right turns.

I live in proximity to Bloor Street West, in Etobicoke. There is bumper-to-bumper traffic from Prince Edward to the South Kingsway. But the bike lanes are empty. And with the white posts, and gaudy extra markings on the road, a very pretty stretch of Bloor St. West has been made ugly.