Bike lanes are essential to…

Bike lanes are essential to daily travel through our city. Cars are getting larger and more powerful (aka deadlier to cyclists and pedestrians) every year. Bike lanes are some of the only protections that cyclists have to protect against the violence inflected upon us by raging drivers looking down on us from their armoured, air conditioned living rooms on wheels. We do not feel safe on our roads. Cyclists and pedestrians pay taxes to the city just like drivers but are not afforded the space, care or protection that a car-owning class is given. For many, biking or similar forms of motion are our only way to get around, taking that away from us is classist, environmentally short-sighted and cruel.