All actual evidence says…

All actual evidence says that removing bike lanes will NOT improve traffic in any real way. Please stop using wedge issues to bolster your perceived political fortunes, especially around this issue.

Other cities are installing cycling infrastructure and seeing positive results across the board, but here in Ontario we are now going backwards. Look at Montreal, or Paris for example. They are doing it right.

Business owners along Bloor are actually in favour of the bike lanes, so maybe listen to them instead of aggrieved suburban commuters who can't bear to take a few minutes more to drive downtown, when they should actually be taking public transit.

Yes, Toronto was built around the automobile. That's the problem. We now have too many people driving, too many cars on the road. You could double the width of every road in the city and traffic would still be an issue, so removing bike lanes will not have the effect you claim it will and you know it.

I live in Scarborough, a not very bike-friendly part of the city. I drive when I have to, I cycle when I can, and I take public transit or bike when heading downtown. The bike lanes have opened up areas of the city to me that I would never drive to and are hard to reach by transit. Please leave the existing lanes alone and install more. It will be good for our city.