I am a working-class…

I am a working-class Torontonian who uses a bicycle to commute to work, run errands, and visit friends and family within the city. I depend on bike lanes to protect me from the dangers that motor traffic pose, so by ripping out existing lanes and making new lanes nearly impossible to build, this proposed legislation is a direct threat to my personal safety and livelihood. If the provincial government was truly serious about reducing gridlock, it should be helping Ontarian cities build more bike lanes to promote the use of bicycles (and other forms of micro-mobility such as e-bikes and scooters) as an alternative to motor vehicles. Extensive bike lane networks are the solution to gridlock, not the cause of it.