I live and work in downtown…

I live and work in downtown Toronto. I strongly object to the passing of this bill for the following reasons:
- The removal of bicycle infrastructure will drastically increase the dangers faced by cyclists downtown by putting them in the same lanes as cars. Far too many cyclists are seriously injured or killed on the roads of Ontario already. The provincial government should be looking to IMPROVE the safety of its residents not put them into harms way. regardless of whether the provincial government think the existence of bike lanes affects the travel time of someone else in a car, that cyclist deserves to be safe.
- Faced with the decision to drive or take a bike, if there is a safe, protected bike lane I will take a bike. All year long. Without a protected bike lane I would likely drive. My car would take up much more room and cause much more congestion than my bike. It would currently take me 45 minutes to get to work by car, 20 minutes by bike, and an hour by ttc. This also means that if I were to drive I would be causing congestion in this city for 25 minutes longer than by biking. MORE bike lanes would REDUCE congestion.
- Given that we are living in a climate emergency I would hope that any effort to reduce the reliance on cars should be taken. Bike lanes make sense both from an emissions standpoint as well as a space standpoint. the less infrastructure we need to build to support cars the better.
- Please focus on getting mass transit running instead of destroying one of the very few quick ways to get around the city.