Hello, As a new Canadian…

Hello,

As a new Canadian citizen, it is very disheartening to see this bill being passed. Having moved from Dallas, TX, where there are no bike lanes and a lot of cars, I was pleasantly surprised to see Toronto have alternate means of transport within the city using the Bike Share program and also using your own bikes (If you own them).

I started using the Bike lanes late last year after I missed the last TTC train from Union station and I started using the Bike share program and it has been a very important means of transport for me within the city. I also noticed that the city has put enormous effort into creating bike lanes and to see them being torn down to be replaced with more cars does not make sense at all.

There is also no proper evidence which suggests that removing bike lanes is going to be the solution for traffic gridlocks (See attached link). This just feels like a very useless move where removing the bike lanes themselves is going to cause more gridlock than letting them be.

I now call Toronto my home and it would be mind boggling and disappointing to see it transform into yet another car-centric city in the North American continent. I sincerely request the representatives to re-consider this bill and put a stop to it. Thank you.