Removing bike lanes makes no…

Removing bike lanes makes no sense in a city. If everyone drive their car, we would have infinite traffic. Providing viable alternatives like public transit and safe cycling infrastructure reduces car traffic, reduces air pollution, and increases health and safety.

Separated/protected bike lanes especially prevent death, injuries and accidents.

Kids and families should be able to safely bike to school, parks, and activities without fear of being doored by a parked car or being run over by increasingly large vehicles.

This government seems only to be able to sympathize with drivers, and forgets that cyclists, pedestrians, and public transit users live here too. Taking away bike lanes takes away their freedom of choice of transportation and their safety.

Bike lanes have proven time and time ageing to increase profits of local businesses, and it’s obvious to anyone that the most traffic congested places are not those with bike lanes.

Instead of wasting money ripping out existing cycling infrastructure, this government should focus on finishing Metrolinx transit projects, expanding and improving public transit, and perhaps safety education for drivers and cyclists.

I’m a driver, a cyclist, pedestrian, and a public transit rider. It’s ridiculous to try and pit one form of transportation against another, as they all have their time and place. But in cities, cars are the least efficient and they are the cause of traffic - they are the traffic.

This bill is misguided at best, and just plain villainous at worst, as if it comes to pass will most definitely result in death and injury. It is out of touch with reality.