Hello as a permanent…

Hello as a permanent resident for the last year of Canada, working in the advertising technologies industry, one of the great draws of Toronto was its versioning cycling culture. This great city design was one of the things that drew me to move to Canada from the United States. This draw of talented professionals is now endangered by the premier who claims to be focussed on increasing business in Ontario.

Additionally, the reach of this bill goes against cities rights to self-determination. Wow, constitutionally the province can overrule cities the cities, and the people that live in them have a right to determine how their roads sidewalks by lanes transit, and any other infrastructure is executed. It only makes sense that the people that have to live every day with these decisions Are the ones who get to make them. It should not be determined by those who happen to commute through certain neighborhoods. While the need to accommodate multiple types of transportation is a parent the benefit of having multi Moto main thorough affairs is greatly apparent to me as I commute through the city daily , I make daily use of the bike lanes, particularly on poor and University additionally the proposal to use side streets as bike lines either would make cycling a secondary form of transportation which it is not or would put cyclist intermixing with traffic, causing even greater congestion, potentially, though of vehicular cycling are much greater to the cyclists and then the drivers . Cycling can be efficient because cycles are space efficient but they are so space efficient that 70 or 80 cyclists an hour in each direction of a bike claim are almost unnoticeable 70 or 80 cars an hour take up a tremendous amount of space. And if we look at the side streets of Toronto , there are almost no side streets that run the length of lower East west or university north south in fact in those examples there are zero side streets that are suitable for that. To make Mike lanes through side streets viable, we will have to use as we did for cars eminent domain to knock down Houses in neighbourhoods to make straight efficient bike lines. Now I am not really proposing we do that but we have done much more destructive options in order to accommodate drivers.

The lowered amount of space from the bike lanes is quite minuscule, and it is shown that more lanes do not typically improve traffic flow. In fact, it could be seen that having fewer lanes can make drivers pay more attention and react quicker because there are fewer distractions coming in from other lanes. Additionally, there is the discussion of cost ultimately vehicle taxes, and gas taxes are insufficient to cover the cost of roads in order to make this plan work. It may be necessary to implement tolls on city streets or raise property taxes. Since property taxes are a major revenue stream that is used for roads and mini cyclist, pay property taxes, and of course sales taxes, which are used For roads logically follows that cyclist should get cycle lanes. Additionally, the biggest logic is that for everyone who is on a bicycle there is a good chance that they could be driving a car and we know that the biggest driver how much traffic there is is how many drivers there are.

Bike lanes, especially on these main thorough fairs, greatly improve safety make Toronto and more attractive city for hard-working highly skilled professionals and save lives and infrastructure cost. Getting rid of them and causing the province to interfere with Toronto and every other municipalities right to determine how their infrastructure is created is a horrendous and something that we will surely regret. Please do not pass this bill. It will not do anything that it says in the title, and it will needlessly endanger the lives of cyclists.