Hello! I am a 15 year old…

Hello! I am a 15 year old child that takes a bike to school 4/5 days a week. I need to bike since to get my 30 minutes of exercise a day (something most car drivers don't get) and it makes me happier and more free than the people trapped in an oversized metal beast. I rely on bike lanes to keep me safe and remove some of my fear and worry from a possible collision. In grade 9, the bike lane on Bloor near Royal York and old mill was not finished yet, and thankfully I only had to bike through that nightmare once before they put safety for me. I found it a scary experience. Cars were whooshing by me and if they had been a little more to the right, that would have ended me right then and there. I live in Danforth, so to get to my school (Etobicoke school of the arts) I have to ride for nearly and hour to get there. This bill plans to take my safety away on major parts of this route, and I take Bloor the entire way to my school. The audacity some people have to dismiss my mode of transport that actually helps urban design and the environment far more than any other mode of transport, is truly unethical. I do not want to have the chances that I may die on my way to school to be raised by massive amounts just so that some car drivers can get to work nearly 2 minutes earlier. I mean really? 2 minutes? Car drivers are protected. they have airbags, seatbelts and tonnes of metal surrounding them to keep them safe. But the poor person outside who got hit? Just a sheet of metal, whamming all the life out of them and pulling them under to be crushed to death. If one really wants to reduce traffic time, just get people off cars! don't encourage them to get on more cars because it's not safe to use a reasonable mode of transportation anymore. Even now, with bike lanes, I have gotten into a car crash that almost twisted my ankle and made me shed blood. If you take them out, not only will more people die, but the whole world is going in the wrong direction. A direction that can end up in concrete wastelands and extreme temperatures. I am strongly against this bill because it is a bill that will strip my safety away, force me onto a mode of transportation I am not happy with, cause only more road deaths and cause more climate change. This bill will make Toronto a dangerous place to live in. There will be 6 lane streets in downtown (University street) that will be ugly and threaten to murder anyone who dares cross the road in an attempt to reach the grocery store on the other side. The fact that this is actually happening makes me sad. I will not reach 12th grade and I may already be dead, and if not dead, fatally injured or very unhealthy, unhappy and financially troubled because I chose an alternate method of transportation. I cannot believe that some people still think it is a good idea to build more roads and drive more cars. Can't they see that by the time they die they left my generation a dead world? Please don't remove the bike lanes, you are risking my life and many, many others.