This bill is ridiculous on…

This bill is ridiculous on many fronts:

1. It is antithetical to our environmental goals. We should be doing everything in our power to promote sustainable methods of transportation and reduce the use of single occupancy gas-powered vehicles.
2. Despite what Doug Ford and his people have to say, there is plenty of evidence that promoting safe bike riding (i.e. with infrastructure like bike lanes) *reduces* congestion. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bike-lanes-impacts-1.7358319 is one example of a relevant article. Our government should quit using cherry-picked, out of date, and misleading statistics.
3. It will put lives at stake. Cyclists die because of unsafe road design. Not only do we need to be *increasing* the number of bike lanes in the city, we need to introduce other traffic calming measures to protect cyclists, pedestrians, transit users, and the people in other cars from motor vehicle crashes!
4. It increases red tape and centralises issues that can and should be local.
5. It will be expensive without doing anything useful. The Ford government has already spent so much of our money in absolutely shameful, destructive, and corrupt ways. Let's not add to the list.

I am also infuriated to hear that Doug Ford is citing University Ave as a possible site for bike lane removal on the basis of getting staff and EMS to hospitals. I am a nurse who works on "hospital row." On a very personal level, if this province's government rips up the bike lane I ride to work multiple times per week, my commute time will increase, my odds of an accident will increase, and congestion will still not improve. Some more fact checking: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-toronto-bike-lanes-1.7…

You know what actually doesn't belong on arterial roads? On-street parking! Bike lanes move people where they need to go. Parked cars don't.