Please do not make it more…

Please do not make it more difficult to build bike lanes in municipalities across the province, and, please do not get rid of parts of the Bloor, Yonge and University bike lanes in Toronto. I used the Bloor bike lane every day to take my three-year to daycare. It is essential. Without it, I would be terrified of navigating such a busy street with my young child, especially in light of the record number of cyclists deaths in Toronto this year, including one on Bloor. The lanes mean we don't have to drive to daycare, and I'm sure for many families and others like us, that means one fewer car on the road and it helps ease vehicular traffic! As the Bloor BIA and others have noted, the Bloor lane is also actually go for business as cyclists, like myself, stop to shop along the corridor, whereas motorists are simply passing through. We'll pickup groceries in our bike trailer at the many fruit markets along Bloor on the return from daycare. Because the lanes are also on a main street, they're part of regular snow clearing in the winter! Which means we use them year-round. Yes! Year-round to take our child to daycare. Whereas side streets are often left unplowed our contra-flow lanes get filled with snow that becomes hard-packed ice and they become extremely dangerous! Please, listen to the people of Toronto, not those simply passing through. This is our city and the bike lanes make daily life safer, more efficient, more environmentally-friendly, healthy and beautiful.