After many years of research…

After many years of research on cycling for transportation, it is abundantly clear that separated bike lanes increase revenue for main street businesses, move travellers from motorized transportation to bikes, reduce collisions for all kinds of travellers, and save lives, not to mention health care costs in our already stressed system. The reduction in travel time for drivers is marginal, and it is clear that as long as the GTA population continues to increase in areas where there is little public transportation for commuting and other travel, then automobile travel will also continue to increase, stressing urban infrastructure. Abundant research has made it clear that building more roads results in more traffic, which creates more urban congestion and the solution is moving travellers out of cars as our cities grow. Investment in public transportation and active travel is the only way to reduce congestion and travel time. This initiative to remove and prevent bike lanes will cost us lives, health care dollars, will slow drivers as cyclists become single occupancy vehicle drivers instead, and will increase local pollution levels. There is no evidence based argument for implementing these measures.