Hello all...historically I…

Hello all...historically I had driven downtown most of my career...and have consulted on or for Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto /City of Toronto/Metro Toronto Police/Fire/Ambulance/Provincal/Federal projects...

...to be quite honest whenever I have driven downtown in 2024 I am shocked at how much more several of the roads are backed up..."blocked" is a better term....yet...in the full car lane removed for a bike lane basically no one is using it...even in a lane of a one way road bike racks for person bikes were installed which forced cars to merge abruptly into lanes already filled with cars barely crawling along...

...the optics of saying adding bike lanes is "more environmental" seems ridiculous when the negative impact due to amount of emissions being released from cars basically just sitting there because they can barely advance forward...definitely negatively trumps any "environmental" advancement bike lanes might have made...not to mention all the costs associated with the switch over to bike lanes...etc...

...based on the existing results of bike lane decisions made by the City of Toronto....yes I agreed that the Province should be part of the approval process of bike lane locations...and car lanes should be returned instead of the existing bike lanes on Yonge/Bloor/University...plus review additional existing bike lane locations for adequate volume of use to warrant keeping them...

...on a positive note...corridors for bikes along the lake...rivers...parklands...etc...work great...

...enjoy your day...H