Hello. I am a resident in…

Hello. I am a resident in Bloor West Village and would like to comment on the proposed changes which will remove the recently installed bike lanes.

I primarily commute to work via TTC, and am also an occasional cyclist. However, I am strongly OPPOSED to the bike lanes in their current form, and fully support the proposal to remove them. My reasoning is:

1. The bike lanes do not represent an efficient use of space. Effectively they have reduced a busy four lane road into two lanes, and the bike lanes to the West of High Park are almost entirely unused. In principal, I am not opposed to bike lanes, but this implementation of them, effectively reducing road space by 50%, for extremely sparsely used bike lanes, is an incredibly wasteful use of resources/space.
2. The reports cited by the city, which state that average travel times along this stretch of road only increased by a de minimus amount, are not credible, and anyone who lives in this community who now experiences gridlock along Bloor on a regular basis can attest to this fact. Travel times, pollution, grid lock have increased materially, and as per my point 1 above, the bike lanes this was done for are rarely used.
3. These bike lanes seem to be strongly opposed by the local community, but strongly supported by "activists" who *do not live in the community*.
4. The implementation of the bike lanes have caused grid lock on bloor, and caused traffic to spill into local residential roads. Again, increasing pollution, noise, all to create space for *UNUSED BIKE LANES*.

To summarize, I am strongly opposed to the bike lanes. Please remove them. Thank you.