Hello, I have to strongly…

Hello,

I have to strongly disagree with much of bill 212.

I use the bike lanes to get to and from places in downtown Toronto as biking is often just the fastest way to get around downtown.

Removal of the lanes along Yonge St, University Ave, and Bloor St would be a huge step back for the city's growing active transportation as a part of its modal share.

If you remove the bike lanes, that will not only increase the danger for cyclists, it will just have cars stuck behind cyclists or put the cyclists into cars filling up the same spot you would've wanted to drive in. Or the space would then fill up with parked vehicles being us back to the same place.

Motorists don't want to drive into cyclists to touch their vehicles nor do cyclists want to have large vehicles passing them without a protected barrier.

Also, the lanes along University, Adelaide, and Richmond take up 1 out of the 4 lanes in each direction, the other 3 being dedicated to space for vehicles

To be clear, I do drive sometimes and use rideshares and find the vehicle lanes useful but so are the bike lanes.

Look, if each municipality decided they wanted to ban bike lanes in their city because they don't think it makes sense in their urban design, that should be up to them. But don't assume Toronto and Trenton have the same transportation infrastructure needs

Please do not pass this bill in its current form

Thank you,
A concerned Toronto, Ontario resident