Bike lanes and connected,…

Bike lanes and connected, safe cycling routes are essential to a world class city. We need more of them, not less. This is the right thing to do to discourage driving in the downtown core given the climate crisis. We should be using public transit and cycling NOT driving.

I worked downtown for 30 years and only drove to work ONE time in all those years. When I started cycling to work in 1987 it was horribly dangerous. By the time I retired, it was getting safer, but still a disconnected network. Now it's finally getting properly safe with the addition of the Danforth dedicated bike lanes. Don't go backwards and start taking them away or blocking adding more. This is the way of the future. Go look at Amsterdam or Copenhagen. Get us to that and maybe people will finally stop the habit of one person per car driving to the downtown core. I rarely drive downtown. Leave it in a lot and take TTC or a bike share!