Hi, as both a biker and…

Hi, as both a biker and driver in Toronto, I’m writing to express my concern about the removal of bike lanes. Without the bike lanes, bikers will have to bike on roads, which also in some ways slow down the traffic. Moreover, drivers will have to be even more cautious of not hitting bikers who have nowhere to bike except sharing the road with cars. I would much rather drive on a road next to a bike lane, than sharing a road with bikers because of safety reasons. Whenever I bike on roads which require bikers to share lanes with cars (e.g. Bloor Street east of Sherbourne Street), drivers would try to pass us and act as if bikers are biking on the wrong lane. Expanding the area of this kind of roads would only increase the friction between bikers and drivers.