Removing existing bike lanes…

Removing existing bike lanes is obscene for at least three good reasons. 1 ) The wasteful cost of removing such a significant infrastructure, some of it still relatively new. Such a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. 2) Those in the lowest income brackets rely on bicycles out of necessity. Almost no one out riding in a snowstorm is doing it because they love cycling. I have been there, not making enough to pay for public transit, too far from work to walk. Not creating safe space for cyclists is absolutely discriminatory against poor people 3) The very obvious environmental benefits of encouraging cycling over cars. 4) I know I said three but the 401 highway is all the evidence that no matter how many lanes there are, they will be full. A far greater problem creating gridlock is cars blocking intersections. There are two lights near me where almost every single cycle of traffic lights leaves one or two cars blocking the intersection, just multiplying gridlock. Please do not remove bike lanes. They are needed, especially on Bloor St.