"I can't make it to the…

"I can't make it to the wedding venue. A truck hit me on my bike and I think my collarbone is broken." That was the call I received from my fiancé as I stood waiting outside one of our wedding venue site visits. We'd both biked - he from work and I from home. Unfortunately that day, a truck veered into him on his bike.

The injuries did indeed include his collarbone being broken in two places. His bike helmet was smashed from where he'd fallen. Thank goodness he was wearing one.

The shortsighted and selfish view to remove bike lanes in Toronto is insulting to our intelligence, detrimental to the environment we are trying to protect and will not achieve its aims of reducing congestion but in fact increase it.

This is gross overreach from the province into decisions of each city - and frankly decisions that have been made, taxpayer money that has been spent. Contemplating spending countless millions of our taxpayer money to rip up bike lanes is beyond comprehension. There are so many real issues that need addressing in our province that would behoove expenditures of this magnitude and Bill 212 is political childishness at best.

We have no need or want to undo good, hard work that has been done to make Toronto safer for bikers, better for the environment and encourage physical fitness and not mental and bodily lethargy.