Bill 212 is out is step with…

Bill 212 is out is step with moving forward to develop climate friendly, sustainable cities. The provincial government is stepping out of their responsibilities of a provincial governing body and creating a culture war between people who drive and people who ride bicycles. Bike lanes do not cause congestion, they offer a safe option for people who ride bicycles to ride for pleasure, ride to run errands, ride to commute, or ride as a mode of work (couriers etc.) instead of travelling by car or on transit (that could also be improved across the province). Traffic is caused by vehicles with single occupants (most of the time unless your are the Premier and have a driver), essentially people in their cars create the traffic that makes it difficult to get around Toronto (this is about Toronto), it's not the cyclists you can't see who have passed the cars and arrived at their destinations first.

Banning, tearing out, and preventing bike lanes from being installed will end up killing people, 6 people have already died in the last year, 5 on streets without a bike lane, and one on a street with a blocked bike lane.

The proof that bike lanes work has been established by the numerous studies that were conducted. the proof that cyclists spend more money that drivers on their routes has been established by numerous studies. the proof that people who ride bicycles are more empathetic was also determined in a recently published study.

Removing bike lanes will not save time or money. It will take months to remove the lanes and cost an estimated 48 million dollars! And frankly, I am not interested in the hard earned tax dollars of our province being spent to remove the thing that paid for the installation of them in the first place. Additionally, the gridlock that will come from construction on major transportation arteries will be ridiculous and likely last longer and result in more accidents and possible deaths due to the unsafe road conditions construction always causes. And when it's all said and done, no time will be saved - the road will still be congested with cars.

If you build it, they will come. More roads = more cars, but more safe cycling infrastructure = more people riding their bikes (and not in cars or crowded lame transit).