I am a Civil Engineer who…

I am a Civil Engineer who trained in transportation engineering who rides a bike across the city to work everyday. This proposal is shear stupidity for a number of reasons, the least of which is that it is completely devoid of any facts, logic, common sense, or engineering principles. Bike lanes are not the cause of traffic, cars are the cause of traffic. A densifying city like Toronto is learning that the car can no longer be the dominant mode of transportation - this is basic engineering principles. The fact that we do not have enough subways, that our streetcars and buses are left to duke it out with said car traffic rather than be given priority in both right of ways and traffic signals, and that there are not more bike lanes are the cause of traffic. These are facts. I grew up in Etobicoke where our Premier is from and know that a lot of folks consider cars to be the only viable means of transportation. It is this dangerous thinking that is keeping Toronto from emerging into the world class city it could be. Put aside how utterly idiotic this man's idea is, this also highlights as to how a man with no working knowledge of transportation principles has the authority to overrule engineers and planners whose job it is to keep the city moving. Between the Bradford Bypass, the 413, the tunnel below the 401, this Premier has reached a new low in figuring out ways to set Toronto back decades in progressive planning while simultaneously pissing away billions of dollars.