I'm a taxpayer and resident…

I'm a taxpayer and resident of Toronto. I use walking and cycling as my primary modes of transportation, with ride-share and car rentals on occasion. I am strongly against the removal of any bike lanes.

- Bike lanes protect cyclists. They save the lives of people like me. Without bike lanes, I would have to ride unprotected on the street alongside cars, buses, streetcars and trucks.

- We can't keep funnelling more cars into the city. The geometry and the physics don't make sense. Cars take up too much space on the road and for parking. We need to focus on more space-efficient ways to move people through the city.

- If you are concerned about opening up more lanes to moving vehicles, I'd urge you to remove on-street parking instead. Using valuable road space for on-street parking on some of our busiest streets is absurd to me. Parallel parking stops the flow of traffic for everyone – cars, cyclists, streetcars, buses.

While I understand the frustrations of congestion in the city, I am urging the provincial government to focus on getting the much delayed transit projects finished instead, rather than using bike lanes as the scape goat.