I both drive to see my…

I both drive to see my family in Etobicoke from Leslieville, and ride my bike to work downtown.

The lack of progress on transit projects in this city, and the poorly thought out demolition of the Gardiner off ramp at Cherry St. have made seeing my parents in Etobicoke harder. It takes longer than ever to drive to them, and there are no good transit alternatives to get there.

But one thing that has made my commute better is This city’s bike lanes. I can take the streetcar to work, which takes 45-50 minutes. Or I can drive, which can take 21 minutes if I leave early or up to 40 minutes during peak rush hour.

My bike commute to work, every time, no matter what, is 20 minutes using bike lanes.

Bike lanes work. They make life better for us residents of Toronto. And the province should not be coming in and harming Toronto residents by removing something we voted for. It’s anti-democratic and bad decision-making. And we’ve had too much of that in this province in recent years.