I live in Toronto and see…

I live in Toronto and see for myself, on a daily basis, the various streets and roads in Toronto. Since the announcement, I have paid alot of attention to traffic and our roadways. Lets use Yonge Street as an example. The laneways have allowed me to feel safe in using my bicycle, given the utter decline in frequency of Toronto bus and subway service.

As I look at heavy traffic, what I am observing it is worst in areas where roads are torn up or under construction.

As a taxpayer, I wonder: What studies have been that measure the impact that bike lanes have supposedly made in adding to gridlock? How was this decision made. What was the cost to install these bike lanes that are now apparently coming done? What will the cost be to remove the bike lanes?

Call me niave, but when I see the width of the lanes along Yonge Street, there is not enough bike laneway to add another lane for cars? So how will this help reduce congestion. With or without bike lanes, we'll still have traffic jams. Less cars, requires better transit, bike lanes and the courage for politicians to stand up for what best serves our environment at this point into climate change.

It makes me so sad to see that these lanes will taken down and for what real purpose. I fail to understand how this will alleviate congestion. Instead, drivers will be all the more aggressive for those still brave enough to try and use their bicycle for going along Yonge street or into the downtown core. We have a city that was not built to accomodate the numbers of people that our gov't is encouraging to come and live in Toronto. We don't have the roads, the hospitals, the schools, etc. We can't manage the number of cars already on our streets.

As well, we have an economy that has come to rely on uber eats, skip the dishes, etc. Is it fair to put the lives of these already, unprotected workers at so much risk to satisfy the whims of Doug Ford.

I think an interesting question would be how many people took to biking, as they were finding the ttc has become so impractical in its slow and infrequent service of these last few years. What I mean, can't afford a cab/uber/lyft all the time, but with bus wait times of like 30 minutes, sometimes that just isn't frequent enough. And, now, that gets taken away too---unless you want to risk injury or worse.

I could not be unhappier with our current Premier. So many poor decisions that are not made in the intersest of the common good.