Hi there - I do not support…

Hi there - I do not support the removal of bike lanes in toronto, and I live, drive and bike downtown. Removing the bike lanes will have a large cost, will cause disruption due to construction and will not magically solve gridlock in the city. The best estimate I’ve read is that their removal might reduce trips downtown by 8 minutes for cars. But this isn’t a panacea and it won’t solve the real problem. We need to keep up building transit at the rate we currently are. This government is already doing exactly what we need, through the Eglinton and finch LRTs the downtown relief line, the go smart track program and the electrification of the existing Go lines. I wish there was a magic fix to congestion in this city, but there isn’t. We need to spend decades doing exactly what you are already doing. And removing bike lanes, at enormous cost and disruption is just a distraction with no benefits at all.