This Bill will sadly mean…

This Bill will sadly mean the end of many lives dn limit the freedom of many others. The lives of children, the lives of parents, daughters, sons, etc. I commute daily on the Bloor bike line from Royal York to St George and then take side streets to reach my work. I see many parents riding with kids in the morning, on add-on seats, or pulley wagons attached to their bikes. I see elderly biking and keeping active. And on my way back around the end of school time I see many parents with kids riding at their heels. Kids on their own small bikes. I've seen many a car try to cut off a kid because they wanted to turn and thought they could beat them only to screech to a stop traumatizing the kid and the parent. I've seen many a car think the elderly person riding in front was going slow enough for them to beat them only to hit them with their fender. I myself now ride with a camera and can sadly say that one drivers see my camera rolling they behave 1000% better. Driver think they won't be held accountable for their reckless driving and endangerment to lives WITH bike lanes on. When there's no physical barrier they park there without consequence, or try to cut you off so they can park. It's sad that how many drivers think twice about their dangerous driving until they see a camera on top of my helmet aimed and filming them. Even then many drivers still don't care about film accountability and still continue to try to run you over. I have had many accidents myself and many close calls, and witnessed countless of other accidents happen a few meters ahead of me.
Removing the bike lanes won't reduce car travel times, because the same people who park in bike lanes will now park on a car lane and the same bad drivers leaving larger gaps between the car in front of them because they're on their phone will continue to affect travel times, and the same drivers who don't know the driving rules will still drive however they want. Bad drivers are the ones holding back car travel times today and will continue to be THE problem with more space.
Taking the bikes lanes will only mean ending the era of parents traveling safely with thie kids to school via bike, or risk their lives, we'll loose some of them, and many more will be injured for life. Same with the elderly, you will limit their freedom to commute and exercise in an affordable way in a city where life had become exponentially more expensive than what they receive as help from the government.
Cyclists will still use the main roads to travel to their destinations, except they will take up the space of a car and be harassed on the road continuously.
Police already don't help cyclists that have been hit by cars, so the population who will seek monetary help from the government for a disability will radically increase.
You'll spend millions destroying the bike lanes and millions more in medical repercussions and lives lost that could've been avoided.
Their bood will be in your hands.