As a Toronto resident who…

As a Toronto resident who drives, bikes and walks around the GTA, here’s why I oppose the bike lane removal and suggest what the government can do instead (even though municipal affairs are not your accountability)
1. CARS ARE TRAFFIC. Remove cars off the road and you will reduce traffic. Did you know that on average vehicles have 1.2-1.5 occupants, depending on the data reviewed? Colossal waste of space.
2. As a driver, I HATE sharing the road with escooters/ebikes/uber/doordash delivery people who do not follow any rules. Separated infrastructure keeps them SAFER and more predictable (hard to weave when you have concrete barriers to jump through)
3. Biking is good for the health (as long as people don’t get run over by entitled drivers)
4. Bikes do not pollute and they do not destroy the roads as heavy cars and trucks do
5. The bike lanes in question are THE infrastructure we need and aspire to have more of. Safe, separated, reliable, fast way of getting around and they REDUCES traffic. Every person riding a bicycle is a car taken off the road.
6. There are TWO other drive lanes (on university) PLUS parking. Remove street parking since there are plenty of side streets to park on and parkades.
7. MY municipal tax dollars went to put them in. MY provincial tax dollars would be used to remove them. This is abhorrent financial management, something a conservative government should know
8. FOCUS ON TRANSIT. The Eglinton LRT is a disaster 5 years late with no site of opening. Based on that performance, the Ontario Line has no chance being built on time. Forget the $200 bribes and invest that $3.2B into healthcare and transit.
9. My daughter just turned 14. She’s not legally allowed on the sidewalk, nor should she be as it’s meant for pedestrians. IF YOU remove the infrastructure YOU will endanger her life and YOU will be responsible for any injuries and deaths. For each piece of cycling infrastructure you remove, I will make it my daily mission to TAKE AN ACTIVE LANE OF TRAFFIC whenever I am commuting to the office or with my daughter to activities, fully to myself for SAFETY reasons. Sharrows, on Spadina for example, DO NOT WORK – I am constantly run off the road by impatient drivers.