Thank you for this…

Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the proposed legislation that would limit or remove bike lanes in Toronto. First of all provincial overreach on municipal planning is wrong. I am both a cyclist and an occasional driver, and there are challenges to both modes of transportation. Please do not remove the bike lanes. They are essential to a vibrant, modern healthy city. There are indeed problems, and some of those problems can be dealt with through improving the culture of cycling and the culture of driving in the city . Drivers must be better informed about the rules of the road as they pertain to cyclists. Cyclists must be made to have lights. They should be ticketed if they do not. E bikes and e scooters Must be properly regulated. The police must be empowered to regulate them , to fine them or to remove them from bike lanes. in my experience police do not even know the bike lane regulations which is an outrageous unacceptable state of affairs. The province and the city must rise to these challenges instead of shrinking from them. Shrinking from the Challenge of creating safer cities where cyclists and drivers and pedestrians all understand the rules and can get from point a to B is a disservice to all citizens. Removing bike lanes is a weak and Short sighted move . I also object to the way that the data has been manipulated: that’s corruption!