I want to Thank the current…

I want to Thank the current provincial government in making the decision to remove the bike lanes on yonge, bloor, and university.

Facts:

Residents who live in the near these bike lanes on Yonge, Bloor, and University were never asked about the choice to have bike lanes. John Tory listened to 2 percent of the population and put these bike lanes in without any notice.

I live have lived near the Yonge and Summerhill for over 50 years.

Traffic was bad enough before the bike lanes, not it is totally ridiculous. What used to take me 5 minutes, takes me NOW over 25 minutes.

Pollution, gridlock are all a result of these bike lanes.

I never see any bikes between Nov to April. Yet the city waste's it's resoures to salt and clear these bike lanes all winter long, which no one uses.

Emergency vehicles. How do they navigate in total gridlock? I am sure a life has been lost becuse an emergency vehicle is Stuck in traffic.

Yonge st, bloor, University are used by the TTC. When the subway goes down. Nothing moves on yonge st, Bloor st, or university. It is total chaos. These bike lanes should be on side streets that the TTC buses do not use.

Yonge St has been 2 lanes North and 2 lane's south for over 200 years. This is precedent. It is not fair to put in bike lanes without any consulatation to nearby residents. The Traffic is 100x worse then it was.

Try and use either bloor st, yonge st, or University during rush hour. Count how many cars vs bikes in the area. Right now it is 2 percent of bikes.

Wheel Trans, TTC, vehicles are unable to drop off any of its passenger's on Yonge, Bloor, Or University because of these bike lanes. Operators MUST drop off passengers on a side street. Usually these side streets are filled with snow. People with disabilities now suffer as they are further away from their destination/ Pick up. Is this fair to those people with disabilites. No!!!!

Yonge St, Bloor St and University ave. Business's have suffered, as customers don't dare go shopping because of the grid lock and now the lack of parking. Look at Avenue Road and Davenport. Floral shop's will be out of business soon as the city has removed the parking in front of their stores.

More Condo's are being built with more cars and traffic expected. Does this makes sense to put in a bike lane and remove a whole lane of Traffic. Ridiculous.

Look at the traffic anytime at bloor and sherbourne. The traffic is so backed up on bloor st. You have to add 20 minutes travel time to your trip.

Put the bikes lanes on other streets. Sherbourne has bike lanes, Dupont has bike lanes. Bloor St, Yonge St and University are major arteries of the city.

Thank you to the conservative government for stepping in and making the much needed decision to get rid of the bike lanes. If people and tax paying residents of the city had a vote right now on the bike lanes. 98 percent would VOTE to remove them. FACT!

Thank you.