I believe the restriction…

I believe the restriction and possibly the reduction of bike lanes in busy areas is opposing the target to reduce grid lock. I for one, use my bike and shared bikes for mostly all my trips around downtown Toronto and find the current situation very dangerous as most roads do not have a protected bike lane, and every time I have the chance to chose which method of transportation to use I always have to consider if the route there is safe enough and most of the time the answer is no. Which forces me to revert to driving or using a car service.

In conclusion removing the option and not working on improving the current bike lane infrastructure will just result in more people resorting to driving including myself.

And as its common knowledge most of the major cities in Europe and even North Americas that are not having comparable congestion issues do have a much better transit system and bike lane infrastructure.

I believe this is a counter productive measure that will just make things worse for drivers and everyone else on the road as we can not create demand for other means of transportation by removing their infrastructure.