If you take out the bike…

If you take out the bike lane, me and every other cyclist will simply use the car lane. In fact, I will personally make it my mission to commute past your riding every single day on my bike. I will take the lane as allowed by law. And I will ride at a reasonable biking speed of 15km/h while obeying every single traffic law in the highway traffic act to the letter.

If there is a car parked in the right lane, I will ride dead in the middle of the left lane. If a faster vehicle is approaching, I will scoot over as far as practicable to let them pass me while leaving not less than one meter between them and me as required by provincial law.

Except the average vehicle in Ontario can't do that while remaining within the 3.3 metre lane width design standard. Because my 600mm handlebars plus the one metre lawful passing distance doesn't leave enough space for even a Honda Civic to legally squeeze into the same lane as me. Oh well. That's how the provincial government wrote the highway traffic act. I guess any vehicle behind me will have to match my 15km/h speed.

So go ahead and take out the lane. I will be there, making sure traffic flows as quickly as permitted by law.

Here are some links that support bike lanes. Bike lanes do not cause congestion. Cars do. Street parking does. On a 2 lane road an entire road is blocked off for street parking for majority of the streets. Then you have trucks stopped, uber drivers stopped, etc. Do you know what roads are meant for? Roads are meant to move PEOPLE, not CARS. You move people on public transit. You move people on bikes. You move people in cars. Roads are for all modes of transportation. Why don’t we remove sidewalks and build another lane there while we’re at it?