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Please remove the bike lanes on Bloor, cyclists have Dupont/Annette and Harbord. West of Ossington, these bikes lanes are never used.

This is a failed pilot project, so we need to quickly remove it.

In Etobicoke, and Bloor West I regularly count 1 bicycle for every 50-100 cars. I do see more bicyclists east of high park, but for the most part these lanes are empty.

As a bicyclist, I never use these bike lanes, we have plenty of safer parallel side roads.

As a driver, these bike lanes double my commute time, and increase my fuel consumption by about 33%. Only 15 years ago I was driving out from St. George/Bloor to Etobicoke at the speed limit in rush hour traffic when Dupont was a 4 lane road. Drivers lost Dupont, but with Annette being an ideal bike road this is a compromise drivers were forced to make.

Bloor at South Kingsway now has traffic reaching Old Mill during rush hour.

Bloor never had any traffic in Etobicoke, and now it's bumper to bumper at Royal York and at Kipling. Since Bloor is bumper to bumper at Royal York, more cars have been using side roads to avoid Bloor. Cars have been taking Glenroy Ave, Meadowvale Dr, King George's Road, etc to avoid Bloor as a result of these bike lanes.

By removing these bike lanes, Etobicoke commuters are Force to drive on side streets. We aren't going to switch to bike when our daily commutes are 50km+, especially not in the icy winter or hot summers.

These bike lanes at Bloor and Dufferin end up diverting vehicles traffic onto Wallace Ave, in front of a school. That's not acceptable, someone in a rush will end up hitting a child. Please remove the bike lanes on Bloor

Please also redesign the Kipling/Bloor/Dundas intersection. At the very least time Kipling/Bloor and Dundas/Bloor so that the lights turn green for North/South traffic at the same time. Add a 2nd left turn lane on Kipling North to both Bloor and Dundas as cars are always backlogged from the turn lane into regular traffic.

I recommend that one of the intersections be a bridge like before. Two major intersections within 100m of each other just don't work. Making Bloor a bridge over Kipling would solve all of the congestion.

Intersections like Bloor/Kipling, Bloor/Royal York, Bloor/South Kingsway, Bloor/Symington, Bloor/Duffering used to all be virtually traffic free and take 1 minutes to cross. Now it's not uncommon to be stuck for 10 minutes as cars proceed single file while the bike lanes remain empty.

If the city needs bike lanes, please keep them on side roads like you do downtown. Turn roads like Hepborne St and Dewson St into 1 way roads, and put a dedicated bike lane on one side of the road. Put signs on Bloor to guide bikes to the bike lanes on Annette/Dupont and Harbord and if needed make some North/South roads like Perth 1 way with a dedicated bike lane, so that Bloor bicyclists have a safe route to Dupont/Annette.

I strongly urge Toronto to remove the bike lanes off Bloor and restore Bloor to a 4 lane road. In locations you refuse to remove bike lanes, please remove permanent parking cutouts so we can still have 4 lanes of traffic.

As for University, please remove the bike lanes completely. Turning University from an 8 lane road into a 4 lane road is unacceptable. Whenever cars are turning both left and right at an intersection, there is no free lane to pass traffic. University and Gerrand is particularly bad because going northbound, frequently cars are turning both ways, blocking traffic.

There is no need for a bike lane on University when St. George, Beverly, McCaul, Peter and Simcoe St are all parallel to University and have bike lanes still well under capacity.

If you remove lanes of traffic for bike lanes, you will force drivers to commute long distances on side roads. This is unacceptable, we need to keep the 3,500lb cars on artery roads and the much lighter and slower bicycles on side roads, on dedicated bike paths.

Please also finish that temporary bridge on Dowling Ave. If you get rid of that bridge support and extend the Jameson on ramp, you could make the on ramp safe much longer, much safer, and have it open all the time, reducing congestion.

Thank You