This is incredibly stupid…

This is incredibly stupid and cynical. These bike lanes are high-quality pieces of infrastructure that play a pivotal role in reducing the chance of cyclists and pedestrians along these corridors from being maimed or killed. Discouraging an extremely efficient mode of transportation from a congestion point of view for the purposes of improving congestion makes zero sense.

I understand that this is completely ideological so reading won't make any difference, but they've literally studied the effects of bike lanes across the world, which are that they encourage people to get out of their cars and cycle, which LOWERS travel times after a year or two. The University bike lanes (and bike lanes in general) improve emergency response times, which Ford is lying about.

This is par for the course in this province, where we have people who refuse to read anything about the topic at hand holding back the city of Toronto (and every other city). People like Ford have no ambition and no pride in where they live and have no attachment to the people they live around. To actively remove expensive and high quality infrastructure that was recently built for no reason other than literal lies is absurd, especially when you realize that people will die as a result.

Until this braindead bill is dead I'll be protesting this by taking the entire lane on my bicycle every time. I will no longer be using any bike lanes in the city. I'll be riding down the middle of Bloor, College, Dundas, Queen, Yonge, and any other street whether they have bike lanes or not. If you don't like congestion now, you definitely won't like it when I act like a car. I'll probably be assaulted by some entitled driver for this, and that will be your fault too.