The dedicated bike lanes…

The dedicated bike lanes along Danforth and Bloor make it safer for cyclists to get to work every day.
My husband uses those bike lanes daily to get from where we live in East York, to Mount Pleasant and Bloor where he works. It would be ridiculous for him to drive there, it’s so close. It also allows him to get exercise daily without having to “schedule it in”.
We have a very busy family life with 2 boys in sports and clubs, so we don’t have time to go to the gym.
My husband is the main breadwinner for our family, I can’t work because of a chronic illness. Not only would it be devastating to us emotionally if we lost him to being hit by a car because dedicated bike lanes have been removed, our family would also be financially destitute.
I am entirely positive that we are among many thousands of people who rely on dedicated bike lanes in Toronto for our family’s well-being, and transportation to the jobs that support us.
We only need to look at the many countries in Europe who have successfully implemented dedicated bike lanes to see how they significantly increased the use of bicycles taking thousands of cars off the road. Less cars equals less traffic. Whenever you are in a car caught in traffic, you are not special, you are part of the traffic problem. We all have somewhere to be.