I, and I’m sure a lot of…

I, and I’m sure a lot of other people, realize that bike lanes are not causing traffic. A lack of other transportation options is causing traffic. On roads where there are no bike lines, cyclists still use them and although they don’t take up and entire lane, they effectively make the lane they’re in useless to vehicular traffic. Might as well make it safer for everyone and give them their own small lane. People pass cyclists on roads with no bike lanes dangerously. Sometimes too close to the cyclist, sometimes cutting people in the left lane off to get around. Not having bike lanes puts lives at risk and causes bottlenecks. And you’re probably thinking, well, “cyclists aren’t there all the time”, but are cyclists not all over the city during commuting times when traffic is also at its heaviest? Outside of rush hour, there isn’t enough traffic to even matter. Having a bike lane doesn’t affect low traffic.

Honestly, the things this provincial government chooses to spend my money on is absurd. Can we fund more public transit projects? The Eglinton Crosstown and its extension are great, the scarborough line is great, but we need more even further out than that. We need high speed rail. We need more trains going to different parts of different cities outside of Toronto. People commute from further cities to Mississauga, Scarborough, Ajax, Oakville, etc and where there is public traffic, it would take extraordinarily longer to get there using it than it does by car. This creates lots of traffic. Not bike lanes. It’s like there’s this huge bleeding cut, and instead of putting a bandage on it, you’re taking a bandage off an older cut and hoping that solves the new cut.

I don’t know if me writing this is going to do anything, but I hope it gets read and I hope you have to think about it. You are in charge of putting forth policies for the people, and I hope that if you realized that the people don’t like it, you’d stop.

Thanks for your time.