This proposal is rooted in…

This proposal is rooted in ill-informed decision-making. Removing already existing bike lanes is a waste of taxpayer dollars and goes against logic. Cyclists will always exist and removing bike lanes will not stop people from cycling on main streets. The reason bike lanes are on main roads is because people naturally take the most convenient route - the less direct the route is, the less likely people will use it. Otherwise why aren't we telling drivers to drive on these apparently empty secondary streets instead? Why are they willingly sitting in traffic?

Removing the bike lanes will force cyclists to take the lane. This will cause congestion to increase, while increasing the risk of fatalities of cyclists. It's disgusting this government would make policies that will kill people. If the province actually wanted to reduce congestion, perhaps remove the parking lane that exists on these main roads, or encourage people to get out of their cars and onto bikes and public transit.

What happens when the province implements this policy and congestion does not improve because the actual cause of congestion stems from Toronto's population ballooning without additional transportation options to compensate? Transit has become increasingly unreliable due to the Province's aversion to providing operations funding, and now the Ontario Line construction is literally the cause of traffic.

Lets take advice from urban planning experts, who all agree bike lanes are the way to go and designed these bike lanes after researching best practices from around the world and publicly consulting the local community, not Doug Ford brainstorming efforts to improve his personal commute.