The proposal will not in…

The proposal will not in fact save anyone time. All modern cities have bike infrastructure. Data available from cities Toronto would like to emulate proves that safe biking infrastructure is critical to human safety, efficient movement of goods and people, and reducing gridlock. Removing established lanes that are serving people, to make space for lanes for parking/auto users who do not pay for upkeep/repair is a future lesson in bad policy. Minister Surma recently took a trip to Japan and raved about the state of their streets and infrastructure; the lesson should be to emulate the world's largest city who less than 5% of its 42M resident population drives. If Ontario Line and other transit projects are going to succeed going forward on transit and bike infrastructure vs back on laneless bloor street is the way this city and province needs to go. It is a shame this government has failed to put human lives and a strong economy first and is instead continuing on a path of foolhardy rhetoric.