Stay in your lane. I am a…

Stay in your lane. I am a cyclist AND a driver, and cannot stress enough the safety impacts of this bill - cyclist, and pedestrian lives, are at risk. We need to move forward in our city design, acknowledge our car-codependency and its unfortunate planning design and environmental impacts (though you have demonstrated you care very little on the latter - the disastrous highway through the greenbelt is yet another example of your utter disregard for our climate resiliency and conservation of agriculture and biodiversity).

An additional vehicular lane does not ease gridlock - it encourages more cars, hence more traffic. To think otherwise is worrisome and disappointing of our elected politicians. Stop skewing statistics to deliver your preferred narrative, that’s not how data works.

Please focus on ensuring Metrolinx projects are delivered, so that public transportation options exist to, you guessed it!, reduce car influx into the downtown core from commuters like yourselves writing this bill. Stop the culture war against bikes in order to gain a few votes, your antics are obvious and dangerous.