I ride my bike to get around…

I ride my bike to get around the city, go to work, attend social events. I also have a vehicle that I drive regularly when the weather is bad, or for errands or to leave the city. It is important to balance the needs of bikes and cars. The bike lanes in the city are essential in creating safer roads. Even as a driver, I appreciate the presence of bike lanes as they help me look out for and not harm cyclists. Traffic is annoying, yes, but there are better ways to target that issue than to make the streets even more unsafe for people who are making the choice to cycle. The city is so dominated by roads with so few bike lanes already. This act would stop and reverse the small progress that has been made already on bike lanes. And it would be incredibly wasteful and frustrating, in terms of time and finances, to reverse the bike lane progress made so far. The idea that the province would encroach on the powers of municipalities like this, to push through and impose approaches from a different level of government is very frustrating. This is a deeply bad idea and it makes me angry that it is being pummelled through the political process.