The removal of bike lanes in…

The removal of bike lanes in Toronto will increase cyclist and pedestrian injuries and deaths due to the lack of safe infrastructure for them to move through their city and be protected by increasingly large private vehicles. Bike lanes are proven to not be factors that increase traffic- every person on a bike is one less car on the road. More lanes do not decrease traffic in the long term. This has been proven in academic literature. More lanes mean more people will start to drive and traffic will start again. More people using alternative means of transit (bikes, subway, buses) is better for the environment than several large and fuel inefficient vehicles idling throughout the city. Funding should be directed at increasing bike infrastructure and improving public transit.