Bike lanes do NOT cause…

Bike lanes do NOT cause traffic congestion. What causes traffic congestion is:
1) increase in population, 2) construction which reduces traffic lanes (often taking over bike lanes so cyclist have to be in the designated car lanes), 3) street parking and 4) poor public transit infrastructure. I live downtown Toronto and on streets like Queen st West and Dundas St west, it can take 20 minutes to get from one light to another AND THERE ARE NO BIKE LANES! There are cars parked on the road taking up a lane of traffic and the streetcar doesn’t have its own lane. Removing bike lanes is an insult to those who have been killed or seriously injured while riding a bike. The province should not be dictating what municipalities want to do to serve their people. This is an uneducated decision and the province will spend so much money to serve a small amount of people who are frustrated. The money that will go into removing bike lanes should be spent on health care that serves EVERYONE.