This bill is one of this…

This bill is one of this most poorly thought out things I’ve read in my life. First off adding additional red tape to adding bike lanes, for the party that talks about removing red tape is laughable. Secondly, I live on bloor, I have a car, I go down young and university almost daily to get to work, removing bike lanes will not accomplish anything, congestion isn’t a mathematical equation where you double the lanes you reduce the congestion in half, the new lane that gets added in is going to be used for useless street parking like on Bay Street, or it will just add a couple of more cars that will still result in congestion because everyone is blocked off at intersections. Instead of coming up with random solutions a toddler could come up with, go look at how other successful governments have solved the issue, it’s a solved problem it’s not something new. But since our government can’t do research by themselves let me help you out, the way to reduce traffic isn’t by increasing lanes, because everyone wants to get into or out of the core, there are going to be choke points and adding lanes does nothing, you need to reduce the amount of cars. That’s it, it’s very simple, less cars, less traffic. How to do that? Invest in transit, instead of bribing everyone with $200 right before an election how about spending it on transit infrastructure, how about while the Gardiner is being fixed for the next two years you subside the cost of go transit and the TTC, make it a no brainer to use transit. Also invest in ways to get to stations, Mississauga is building the LRT, what about Oakville, and other suburbs, why is driving the reasonable only way to get to the Go station, it’s silly. If you love drivers so much (keep in mind I am one) make it better by reducing the amount of cars by giving people proper alternatives, taking away bike lanes is literally reducing alternatives because guess what I used to bike instead of drive but if you remove the bike lanes on bloor and university, I now have to drive because the side streets are not as safe as protected bike lanes, so that means you literally just did the opposite of what your bill intends which is add more traffic because now I have to drive when I would not have done so before. Please just think for a little more than a few minutes before writing a bill, like actually put some thought into it, look at what other successful governments that have large growing populations have done, you don’t need to come up with random crap, others have already solved this problem.

Signed someone with a car who lives on bloor and bay and thinks this bill is one of the most poorly thought out things ever written.