Like many people in Toronto,…

Like many people in Toronto, I grew up driving everywhere from our family home in midtown (back when it took 15 mins to get anywhere).

Since the pandemic however, my entire family (including my parents in their 60s) now use bikes as their primary transportation, owing to a protected bike lane that now connects us to the rest of the city. This bike lane takes at least 6 members of my family off the road, and offers great exercise and well being to all of us. There is also no faster way to get around, and this critical mass of bikers>more bike infrastructure>more bikers clearly has momentum - why would you seek to interrupt that momentum now? Just as we are going from 2-6 million city bike users and getting serious numbers of people out of their cars?

As a midtown kid, I can tell you the 90s are never returning, in my neighbourhood alone there are towers going up on every corner, with no parking per this govts policy change. All those people bike, streetcar and Uber (as they should).

There is no viable plan to densify which does not include bikes, scooters, public transportation and walkable streets. It is time to move forward towards density and livable cities, there is no plausible path backward.