I own a car and two bikes. I…

I own a car and two bikes. I live downtown Toronto. I use my car frequently when I need to run errands or leave the city, otherwise I use my bike about 80% of the time to travel within the city. To work, to meet friends and for leisure. I love riding my bike. The bike lane network in Toronto and around the province is growing. I use the bike network in Toronto everyday, including the GREAT new lanes on University. The bike network is integral to keeping the city moving, reducing it would only make things worse with short term construction to rip them out and overall more car lanes = more traffic. I do not support Doug Fords Conversatives to remove bike lanes. This is unsafe, as it will not remove the amount of people who bike, it will only make them bike on the road with vehicular traffic - slowing more cars down and increasing the risk of accident.

Bike lanes save lives and help people move around the city.

If Doug Ford was really concerned about traffic he would ban on street parking on these busy streets and not have patios on the streets all summer. I’m not sure how bike lanes contribute more traffic than these.

All to be said I can’t say enough how much I do not support this motion. It’s a distraction for the other things this government is mismanaging or flat out lying about. What are you distracting us from Doug?