I don't like the proposal to…

I don't like the proposal to remove the bike lanes. It seems like the province is pushing municipalities around for no real benefit to anyone. The bike lanes are in place, and it's a waste of taxpayer money to go to all the work of tearing them out at this point. Even if they were removed, you'd still have on-street parking reducing the affected streets by one lane in either direction, so the actual gains for drivers in terms of capacity would be negligible.

I drive regularly on all of the affected streets in Toronto, and none of them have bad gridlock because of the bike lanes. They have bad gridlock because there's so few ways to get around Toronto rapidly without using a car so there's tons of people driving; because Uber, Lyft, and food delivery drivers are constantly blocking traffic to do pick ups or drop offs; and because there's tons of construction that's allowed to block off traffic lanes. Of those reasons, I mind construction the least.

Ford and the Tories should take the money they'd spend tearing out the bike lanes and build better inter-city / inter-regional transit so fewer people have to drive into Toronto when they come here for work or fun, and make it easier to get around once they are here so people don't have to either use their cars so much or endlessly calls Ubers and other fake taxis that don't follow the rules of the road and jam it up for everyone else.