Currently the only way for…

Currently the only way for me to get to work across the city (GTA) my bike is to use the bike lane on Bloor. If the bike lane is removed I will be cycling / merging onto the street itself, slowing down car traffic to my speed, as there are no reasonable alternatives to travel across town without a huge detour. Furthermore, there is currently a whole lane dedicated to parking on major streets like college and bloor, so why don’t we remove those and have people park on side streets or public garages…

We need bike lanes to reduce auto traffic and congestion. However, what we need more is a network of bike lanes that makes sense. Currently the lanes do not connect well, or randomly end thus forcing cyclists onto the road, which leads to slow traffic. If we had a few sensible east-west and north-south lanes it would allow people to actually commute by bike rather than being forced onto the road or random side streets.