I live in the High Park…

I live in the High Park neighbourhood. I walk or run Bloor Street between Jane St and Dundas on a regular basis as part of my exercise routine and I count the bicycles in the bike lanes each time. On average during the last six weeks, there have not been more than 7 actual bikes in the lanes, in either direction, on any given day. This does not jibe with the data that the city provides at the meetings I have attended on the subject nor what they provide the media so that information is distorted or a purposeful lie. There may be uber electric bikes in the lanes a certain times of the day-mornings and evenings-but we do not pay our taxes to support private enterprises delivering goods. I also believe electric bikes in these lanes are dangerous. Electric scooters and other similar devices are illegal and should not be allowed on the roads, bike lanes and sidewalks. I submit that the reasons the city wasted our money to install bike lanes without valid consultation or referendum, constitutes a violation of the mandate we have provided and that the mayor and the councilor representing Parkdale-High Park must be held responsible and removed from office for supporting this fraudulent use of city resources. Now we must spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove the bike lanes in order to get the traffic moving again.