Removing the bike lanes won…

Removing the bike lanes won’t resolve car congestion. That’s an issue on every main street in the city whether there’s a designated bike lane or not. The issue is the public transit options are limited and unreliable forcing city dwellers to cars and bikes. As population density increases the only transit option between the two that will maintain or reduce the level of traffic is bikes.

Removing the bike lanes on Bloor, one of the highly used designated bike routes, will reduce safety and only make traffic worse as bikers will not feel safe and be forced to cars and inefficient public transit. The proposal to remove the bike lanes on Bloor is quiet frankly shocking and would be a bad use of tax payer dollars.

We need to keep bike lanes in the city and continue to work to make biking a safer option. It is the most efficient way to get around the city as an able-bodied person. The more people who choose biking as transit will mean a reduction in car traffic.