Most car trips are under 2…

Most car trips are under 2 km. When safe bike lanes are available, people will bike those short distances, removing up to 20% of cars from roads - reducing congestion - especially in downtown areas. Multiple studies show a net economic benefit for bike lanes - increases in sales to local businesses, reduced congestion, reduced healthcare costs, healthier and happier people at work and school.

Most bike lanes on busy streets in urban areas replace street parking. Removing parking activity, by pushing parking to side streets or parking lots, also reduces delays and congestion, allowing traffic to flow without interruptions. Bike lanes on busy streets improve traffic flow.

There is fixed road space downtown. Adding lanes in one area does not add lanes further away. Thus, any perceived "reduction in congestion" or "speeding up of traffic" in one small area just means worse congestion and standstills a few blocks further away. More cars means more cars, means worse traffic. You have to look at the entire system.

Removing bike lanes will KILL PEOPLE.

There is no economic, traffic, or moral reason to remove bike lanes or prevent new ones from being built. This is like removing the EV car chargers. An action that will simply be undone, at great expense, within a couple of years.

Be more like the great world cities - support alternative transport (walking, cycling, public transit).

Please, stop making Ontario a laughingstock. Destroying a world heritage park (Ontario Place) and closing the first science museum (Ontario Science Centre) has put Ontario sufficiently on the map of worst-run jurisdictions. End your term quietly. Fund healthcare, schools, school buses, housing. Do at least one thing that redeems your political career.