I use my bike every day to…

I use my bike every day to commute to work. I'm lucky in that my route to work includes utilizing a pedestrian & bike only street, the west end rail path. The bloor west bike lane is also a part of my commute.

On the other side of the rail-path my route includes Davenport and St Claire (west of Caledonia). Biking in these areas is difficult because:
- there's little or no bike infrastructure
- roads are congested with parked cars and lots of through-traffic
- the side streets are not continuous, forcing me to use the main roads.

I feel much less safe biking in these areas.

Grade-separated Bike infrastructure is harder to saturate with traffic and, requires less maintenance compared with motor vehicle roads, and provides traffic free pathways for emergency vehicles.

It's frustrating to me that the province wants to spend administrative resources reviewing already built and future bike lanes. The literature is quiet clear that it would be more economical to build more bike lanes to induce bike traffic demand and reduce car traffic. And that is without accounting for the time spent administering this new department.

Please drop this bill. Bikes are not just for recreation. They are a viable alternative to car travel that costs the province less money to maintain. And please publish the reports that were generated by your staff to support this bill. I would hope it's not written based of the anecdotal stories of a few constituents.