Toronto is far past the…

Toronto is far past the point that it is driveable. You can’t keep building population dense areas like City Place and Liberty Village and think that traffic will be the same it was 10-15 years ago. If you want to reduce gridlock, provide people other options - reliable, safe public transit that runs at convenient times, protected bike lanes so people can ride safely. Build walkable cities, ensure outlying cities and towns have adequate resources so they don’t need to commute Toronto.

This government has repeatedly demonstrated it doesn’t care about the residents of central Toronto . They clearly care more about commuters and tourists. They rush to build population-dense communities and don’t care about their quality of life once the buildings are filled.

They have demonstrated that the owners and residents of single-family homes are valued more than those in multi-unit residential areas.

Removing bike lanes is not going to prevent gridlock on the DVP, the Gardiner, the Allen.
Removing bike lanes is not going to prevent gridlock anywhere in Toronto. The only thing that will prevent gridlock is reducing the number of people driving.

Once the bike lanes are removed, and the government realizes that it did not make an impact, the drivers will be angry that you lied and the cyclists will be angry that you didn’t listen. You will have no one to blame it on but yourselves.