As a City Planner (not with…

As a City Planner (not with Toronto) and an expert in Urban Transportation, I strongly disagree with this Bill for the following reasons:
- Bike lanes have had a negligible effect on vehicle travel times, if any effect at all
- EMS response times have been quicker since bike lanes were added, as per Toronto's Fire Chief
- Bloor bike lanes did not remove any lanes of traffic through most of it's length
- There are no major studies that conclude removing bike lanes alleviates traffic congestion
- Removing bike lanes will kill people, and again, not change travel times by more than 1 or 2 mins
- Successful cities have excellent cycling and active transportation infrastructure
- Removing/adding bike lanes in a single municipality is not and should not be Provincial jurisdiction
- The cost or removal is too high to defend and will create years of actual traffic congestion