I am horrified that Doug…

I am horrified that Doug Ford wants to tear up the beautiful bike lanes that have been established in the City of Toronto over the last few years. These bike lanes, in combination with the generous provision of sites to pick up public bikes, are well used, and necessary to encourage people to get out of their cars and use public transit and bikes. Any measures to "decrease gridlock" just lead to more people travelling in cars and shortly thereafter, more gridlock - there are many studies establishing this in other cities around the world and in our own experience. Tearing up bike lanes won't help gridlock.
I'm also completely opposed to the province having jurisdiction over decisions about whether to install bike lanes or remove them, over the wishes of the people who actually live in the city concerned. This is anti-democratic to its core.
I speak as a fully employed senior who works downtown in Toronto. I avoid using my car whenever possible and get around very efficiently by walking and using the TTC. If the present bike lanes had been established when I was younger, I would have used them, but biking in traffic was always too terrifying for me to attempt in the past - these lanes are exactly what we need to get people like my younger self out of cars.