Hello, I am a Toronto…

Hello,
I am a Toronto resident. I am begging you to please not rip out any bike lanes. My husband rides his bike to work every day. It’s what we can afford. I am already incredibly anxious every time he leaves home. It’s already so dangerous out there for pedestrians and cyclists. He promises me to stick to roads with safe bike lanes. But sometimes they don’t exist and if you rip up the ones he uses his life is going to be in danger. Please don’t do this.

All evidence, within Toronto and around the world show that bike lanes make for better safer more liveable cities.

There is no logical reason to remove bike lanes. If there aren’t bike lanes cyclists get to take up lanes on the road. Wouldn’t that just make more congestion.

We need more bike lanes not less. I would ride my bike to work as well but there is no current safe route for me. I’ve been waiting and waiting hoping that one day there would be a full bike on eglinton. But now that’s even in jeopardy.

Are there not better things that the provincial government can spend their time in. Leave these decision s up to municipalities.

I really hope these comments actually get seen by decision makers. No offence to the amazing admin workers that work behind the scenes but sometimes it feels like these feedback forms are just for show. Because it really doesn’t seem like anybody actually listens to the people. The people of Toronto want bike lanes the businesses in Toronto want bike planes families in Toronto want bike planes to keep our loved ones safe. Why does the government want to make unsafe cities? How does that make any sense? Why are these decisions being made by people who commute into the city? Why isn’t the government listening to the people who actually live in the city and want to make it a better place?