I ride my bike to work every…

I ride my bike to work every single day. I rode my bike through the first 15 years I lived in Toronto, but stopped after being doored 2x early in my 30s. Recently, with the extension of bike lanes in the city I have been able to resume biking again and almost never drive anywhere except to get groceries once a week. My husband and I are able to function with only once car. Biking is the fastest, least expensive and cleanest way to get around the city. I know if the city continues to expand, rather than destroy the biking infrastructure in the city, more people would feel safe to bike into the downtown core to work, and congestion would ease. Many of the great cities in the world - Paris, New York - are doing this and it's working.

I do agree that some of the bike lanes that were put in during Covid, need to be examined. There are some areas that with proper bike and traffic lights that bikes and cars could co-exist more efficiently, but ripping out expensive bike lanes is not the way to do this.

I beg you to make the city safer, and cleaner, by reducing congestion and finding ways to reduce it rather than increase it, as Bill 212 is proposing. Floods, heat waves, forest fires, all caused by climate change are the legacy we want to leave our children and their children in this city.