I do not agree with a lot of…

I do not agree with a lot of the bike lanes in this city. People rarely ride bikes all year yet we use cars all the time. Bike lanes should not be on major roads causing a removal of a car lane. As much as you don’t like it, we need our cars especially for those of us living outside of the downtown core (but who need to come downtown for various reasons such as occasional work, appointments, etc). You need to be optimizing traffic for cars. Taking a car is still often quicker than public transit and allows us to be more flexible (eg need to leave to pick up a sick kid). TTC is so unsafe and dirty and GO train is so limited with its schedule. It would be a lot quicker for me to run to work or drive than to take transit bc of the way it is setup for my route. Closing the bayview extension to cars going north was also a major mistake as that was a large route for diverting traffic off the lower DVP/lakeshore. It seems like people who like bike lanes are people that live downtown and only travel short distances and don’t have kids/pets. This isn’t Europe so stop trying to make us so bike focused. These lanes rarely get used outside of the immediate downtown core. Divert bikes to less busy roads.