Bike lanes are an important…

Bike lanes are an important part of city infrastructure, and are utilized successfully in major metropolitan cities throughout the world. It would be an egregious use of taxpayer money to deinstall perfectly functioning infrastructure that has recently been built, bypassing the opinions of cyclists, pedestrians, BIAs, and local businesses.

Bike lanes boost sales to neighborhood business, allow drivers to not be worried about hitting cyclists, and cyclists can travel knowing their chances of being hit by a vehicle are reduced. Reinstating the previous multi-lane arrangement with bicycles will kill lives. Cyclists heading to work, families in cars, and pedestrians can be killed because of these changes. These bike lanes are only one of a few examples that make the city of Toronto competitive to the pedestrian and cycle-friendly culture of European cities. Removing them would set a precedent that the only citizens in this city worth prioritizing are the high-income, able-bodied people who can afford cars as their primary mode of transportation.

Is this the message that the City of Toronto wants to convey? That the rights, well-being, safety, and lives of its people are less important than its cars?