This bill is problematic for…

This bill is problematic for so many reasons:

1. Countless traffic studies have shown that adding more car lanes incentivizes driving over using bikes or mass transit and does not actually improve traffic flow. Bike lanes allow for higher-density movement of people, and Torontonians are finally starting to change behaviour to use them given the more comprehensive network that's only recently been built and is now under proposal for being removed again.

2. All the money spent on bike lanes will have been a waste, and it will cost even more to remove them again.

3. This is a disturbing overreach of the provincial government, and is a blatantly selfish move by Doug Ford to shorten his commute. This is a municipal matter specific to Toronto and must be decided by Toronto itself. If Ford wants to make decisions that specifically only affect Toronto, he should run for municipal office, but he can not have it both ways. Municipal government exists for a reason.

Have you considered removing parking lanes on Bloor Street instead? Get rid of a couple hundred parking spaces, and have those drivers park on side streets instead. This is clearly a bigger waste of physical space and thus a greater impediment to car traffic than the 2-foot-wide bike lanes that move hundreds of people per hour and thousands per day.

Toronto has the opportunity to be a leader on clean, efficient commuting, and has finally started taking steps to make systemic improvements to that end. Don't throw it all away so that Ford can shorten his drive by 5 minutes.