In June 2015 I woke up to a…

In June 2015 I woke up to a text from my roommate asking me to give him a call when I woke up. At the time he had subletted his room to a friend as he had moved back home to Burlington for the summer. I called him and he said that his friend had been riding his bike down Avenue Road the previous night and had been hit by a drunk driver.

Toronto is a city that is unfriendly to bikers and needs to provide proper infrastructure that allows bikers to travel across the city in a safe manner using bike lines. All my life I've been too scared to ride a bike in the streets of Toronto because I am afraid that I will get hit by a car. To rip up already existing bike lanes is a waste of money, and in fact more money should be spent on putting in new bike lanes and making the existing ones even better and safer for cyclists.