As a retired 67 year old…

As a retired 67 year old woman, who owns a car but also loves to cycle I don’t like the plans set out in Bill 212. Gridlock won’t improve with the removal of Bike lanes.

People coming from areas west, north and east of the city need to change their mode of travel and start using other means of coming into the city such as GO Transit. The trains are running more frequently and the cost to connect to TTC has dropped saving citizens money and time to get to their destination using a Presto card.

I live in the east end on the Toronto-Scarborough border. When construction began a few years ago on the Gardiner Lakeshore DVP area it would take over an hour to get downtown. Cutting thru city streets didn’t improved my travel time.

I decided that I needed to see if I would be able to bike the 15 km distance. I know what it feels like to ride in traffic. The first day a van with wide mirrors clipped my handle bars that really shook annd scared me. People open their car doors into traffic. Cars pull out into traffic not looking for cyclists.

I now regularly bike using the Danforth-Bloor lanes. Please don’t remove the Bloor St lanes bc it provides me a safer zone that I and others use daily.