Please do not move forward…

Please do not move forward with Bill 212. I am a graduate student at the University of Toronto and I live in the Bloorcourt neighbourhood. The easiest and most affordable for me to get to school each day is to bike using the bike lane on Bloor Street. I am very grateful for this infrastructure because it makes my commute way safer. I encounter many other people using the bike lane every morning and evening. Often, parents will have their young children on the bikes with them.
When I have to bike on streets that do not have bike lanes, like College Street I feel very on edge and unsafe which adds unneeded stress to my day.
Bike lanes create a fair separation between cars and bikes and I feel that drivers are more aware of me when I am in a bike lane. I believe that removing the bike lane will increase traffic as more people will need to rely on cars to get to where they're going. Also, having cars and bikes in the same areas creates unneeded congestion because a bike goes slower that traffic, so when bikes are forced to go into car lanes the whole system slows down. I have also been told many horror stories of bikers being killed by vehicles when biking on roads that do not have bike lanes.
Removing already existing bicycle infrastructure is a complete waste of tax payer money, and will not speed up driving times because of the bikers that will be forced into taking up a lane to bike safely to where they're going. Thank you for reading my comment and I sincerely hope that you will preserve the bike lanes that make biking in Toronto possible.