A lot of money was put to…

A lot of money was put to put bike lanes for children, adults, and everyone to cycle safely in Toronto for those that cannot afford a car or want to incorporate a healthy mode for transport. In this day and age where cost of living is increasing, various modes of transit including bicycles should be explored. Cars take up more space on a road compared to a cyclist or even a bus that holds 30-40 passengers. I live in downtown Toronto and have felt safe cycling from yonge and bloor to etobicoke with these bike lanes to see family and improve my health to avoid straining our health care system. Studying Architecture and Urban Planning - there are various benefits to protected bike lanes, you reduce fatalities, you enforce drivers to manouvre safely and keep their eye on pedestrians and cyclists, you keep people healthy.

I think this policy choosing to remove bike lanes in a major city is not thought out - New York and Chicago have more extensive bike networks. After months finishing the street upgrades for bikelanes in Downtown Toronto - just to rip it off seems additional expense that will cost Ontarians money and putting more traffic in our streets with construction. The main priority the Provincial governament should look into is investing in ways to encourage public transit use and providing reliable subway and bus service to take non-essential vehicles off the roads and enable essential vehicles for emergency services, construction, and necessary transport of goods and services to move with ease.Could we allow the city to study the stats and the impact of a bikelane installation after 4 years to see what benefits and drawbacks it entails? Seems wasteful when some of the improvements in my area are not even a year old, and many people have used the bike lanes this past summer. Bike Share Toronto has reported increased ridership.

SInce the pandemic of 2020 - How come TTC investment and improving services and reliability, completing the Eglinton LRT is not even put into priority? If you want to reduce gridlock - invest and make public transit (TTC) much more reliable and improve subway infrastructure, and increase bus service, have a reliable, continuous bike network that encourages everyone to use it. For someone who lives in Toronto - hold site developers accountable when their contractor's construction trucks hog up the laneway and hold up traffic inefficiently.

I strongly oppose this proposed direction of eliminating our bike lanes, it's an inequitable approach. I think all forms of transportation should be embraced and active forms should be encouraged.