Bill 212 around removing…

Bill 212 around removing bike lanes will not help with gridlock and traffic in the city of Toronto and Ontario more widely. It will lead to more congestion in that bikes will have to share the road with traffic and create for more dangerous conditions for all involved. Bikes are an essential part of our transit system and need to be respected. There should be a governmental push to prioritize modes of transit outside of driving because that will have a larger and lasting impact on traffic times as well as a net positive impact overall. We need to shift the narrative that cars and bikes and adversarial, bike lanes are not what is giving our city horrendenous traffic and it wrong and damaging to present it as such. I urge the Ford government to look at its priorities and see that bikes are a positive and important part of our city life. Bike lanes and biking infrastructure needs to be invested in and made safer, not removed.