There's no statistical or…

There's no statistical or scientific evidence to support this proposal. In fact, I can argue the opposite if you normalize with the size of the infrastructure, there's more people using bike lanes per km than people driving per km of infrastructure in cities (perhaps not in Toronto due to density).

A few other reasons why we should invest more in bike lanes and not the opposite:

- Cheaper infrastructure: it's cheaper to build and maintain bike lanes than to build new infrastructure for cars (or transit) for the same amount of people using it. The cost of commuting by car is 10x more expensive compared to biking including the costs of infra and public sector costs.
- Safer for bikers and drivers: Drivers will also be safer and drives won't be delayed if bikes have their own infrastructure. I bike to work and bike lanes are essential for me the way sidewalks are for pedestrians.
- Public Health costs: I am an example of someone that was riding on the road (no proper bike infrastructure) and had an accident, spent 2 days in Grand River Hospital, had surgery that cost thousands of dollars to Ontario and 1 year later I'm still not 100%.
- Improved Health: when the society has better health, public health costs less too. Alleviate the pressure that our health system is going through right now.
- Environmental reasons: obviously less cars equals to less carbon emission, less fossil fuels.