I am a middle aged…

I am a middle aged professional that drives, bikes, transits, and walks within the city. I am having difficultly seeing this proposal as anything but political. It is eating up precious time and money to propose this and to enact the removal of lanes and prohibit the creation of more. The research CLEARLY shows bike lanes do not have a substantive impact on congestion and in fact IMPROVE travel times. I encourage the conservative party and especially Doug Ford to educate themselves on causation vs correlation. Post-covid car trips are up everywhere! People are driving at all times of the day. Bike lanes did not cause this phenomenon. To actively choose to remove and prohibit the creation of new lanes is an affront to public health. People will get injured, people will die. Removing lanes on Bloor will not stop cyclists from using Bloor. There are no alternative "side road" networks that are feasible/sensible. This government is creating unnecessary conflict to draw criticism away from the fact that they have not built any housing, homeless rates are increasing, wait times are increasing. Do your job! The government is more worried about their base having to drive beside bike lanes than the housing and health care crisis. I am embarrassed by the lack of decency and maturity by this government.