I know the government won’t…

I know the government won’t care about this little performative exercise but here we go. This idea makes no sense, even for motorists. If I were to break down the various criticisms people have about bike lanes:
-they take away lanes for cars=they do on paper but no street in old Toronto has ever had two proper thru-lanes in each direction. One lane is always clogged by street parking and the other one is littered with cars turning left. Re-designing streets provides the ability to give all users their own space
-nobody uses them in the winter=well I use them and frankly Toronto hasn’t had a winter with continuous snow on the ground since my childhood
-they block emergency vehicles=they do no more than street parking does and last I checked parked cars can’t move but bikes can so from a policy alternative proposal this doesn’t make any sense either
-I barely see cyclists=the numbers don’t support this at all and I can say the same thing about any number of streets when it comes to cars but I don’t see anyone saying we should ban those
-it prevents access to business=again the numbers don’t support this, small businesses are not a reliable source of information on this (they consistently over estimate when asked), non-motorists have to walk to businesses from stations, bike docks, etc all the time, motorists don’t have some inherent right to be able to avoid that

I hope the government is ready to accept the deaths of constituents because that will be the outcome of this policy.