I am against downtown…

I am against downtown Toronto requiring provincial approval for the addition of bike lanes and for provincial regulations that discourages maintaining and growing Toronto’s bike lane network. Toronto benefits from people having an alternative to traditional roads for cars, as it is much faster for me to commute around the city on a bike. Furthermore, bike lanes create opportunities for healthy (and convenient) life styles for Torontoians through facilitating exercise into the daily commute and reducing smog. Also, a potential shift towards fewer bike lanes, as would be enabled through provincial oversight if bike lanes weren’t aligned with the political values of the provincial government, would create a great traffic and parking problem in most areas of Toronto. There already isn’t enough parking infrastructure and many of the people who live here don’t have or use cars as a result. By making travelling around Toronto less accessible for the people who live here, it makes it harder for the people who must drive in to compete with local traffic. Please keep the decisions on local issues in local hands and do not invite provincial oversight on bike lanes in Toronto.