Keep Toronto's bike lanes…

Keep Toronto's bike lanes. Environmentally it only makes sense to move towards fewer cars and smaller cars. Travelling in Europe I see this move everywhere. In Toronto, it seems residents need more encouragement, not less, to ditch their cars or leave them at home more often. Bike lanes encourage cycling not just for commutes to and from work and school but for all kinds of errands and recreation. This is a lop sided change. Why make it harder and less attractive to cycle? This just puts more people into cars to create more congestion and more pollution. Bike lanes are so much safer. When I am cycling on roads without a bike lane I am against the curb and am frequently cut off by cars who cut closely in front of me totally ignoring the supposedly required distance of three feet. If I can't find a route with a bike lane for most of the route I will try to TTC although with the TTC becoming less and less reliable I do sometimes feel like I have to drive. If Toronto's best bike lanes are reduced I'll be in my car all the time to the detriment of the air and to congestion. Why doesn't Doug Ford put the $200 rebate towards improving TTC? Better TTC combined with MORE rather than less bike lanes would be the way to reduce congestion and pollution.