As a downtown Toronto…

As a downtown Toronto resident this is truly the most absurd legislation in a long time, it's been a rough last few years with the pandemic, rising inflation, high housing costs; but the one visible civic improvement in my neighbourhood has been the bike lanes. To take one of the few visible positive things that is happening and rip it up without consulting with the people who live there is truly absurd.

I have lived in Toronto more than 10 years and I never bike, I never bike because it is dangerous, there isn't a sufficient and safe bike network to ride on yet. I like many would love to bike and would bike if biking was safer and these bike lanes are doing just that, they are clear progress to a city where I can have the option of biking. They make it better to live here, they give me and other residents an alternative to driving. Our government should be consulting with the citizens and looking to the future so we can build the place we want to live in; a place where everyone has an option to use safe and reliable bike transportation.