I use bike lanes in Toronto…

I use bike lanes in Toronto every single day. I go out of my way to use these bike lanes rather than go on non-bike lane line streets. When I’m biking on streets without a bike lane, I not only feel unsafe, but it often results in cars is slowing down, switching lanes, avoid avoiding the lane I’m in, or most often: getting much closer than is safe.
Requiring provincial approval in order to build bike lanes on streets is taking away the autonomy of a city to function the way it should. Bike lines are installed after significant research and careful city planning. An important note in that sentence is CITY planning, not provincial planning. A well-known fact learned in every urban planning degree is that adding more lanes does not mean cutting traffic. decisions like these should be left to the people who know about them, CITY planners in the CITY.