I am a university student in…

I am a university student in Toronto who has lived here my whole life. This idea is dangerous, stupid and an absurd waste of money in a time when our healthcare system (one of the increasingly few things that makes me proud to be Canadian) is stretched so thin. Cars are an inefficient way of transporting people when such a large percent of them contain a single occupant during workweek commuting. The subway and bike lanes move people faster, safer, and cheaper. The fact that this is even being suggested is patently absurd considering this is clearly a municipal responsibility, and the people of Toronto voted in Mayor Olivia Chow who has made her pro-bike lane stance very clear. Biking on busy streets without bike lanes is dangerous, and forcing cyclists to take side streets (which are hardly safer) shows that they are viewed as less than car drivers, who are a very loud minority. Regardless of the climate impact of this, this will result in cyclists being killed. Not might. *Will*. As someone who cycles downtown and has friends who cycle downtown, this proposal is a massive waste of money that could be better spent on the healthcare system than tearing down people centric infrastructure to be sacrificed on the altar of the all-mighty automobile.