The city of Toronto should…

The city of Toronto should not be burdened by the bureaucracy of the province in what its citizens decide is the best for themselves. Anecdotally, I count more bicycles in the bike lanes during rush hour than there are cars. There are record bike share numbers reported by each year. Removing the bike lanes will completely hinder or halt the countless people I see taking their kids to school in cargo bikes, getting groceries, and lending their patronage to businesses on a whim (something cars cannot easily do because of their size and cumbersome nature). This number of cyclists is 44% by the way, 70% of us ride bikes, 44% of us use them for utility, and yet theres only a sparse number of bike lanes compared to the cars which are catered to when those able bodied could leave their cars at home and take public transit/bike like the rest of us.

My girlfriend and I shop every 2 weeks using our bikes, transporting nearly 100 pounds of groceries on them, and this is only possible because we have an uninterrupted bicycle lane network from our apartment at Church and Wellesley to T&T Supermarket on College. The province run by people held up in the suburbs using Toronto as their playground should not be meddling in the business of inner city dwellers. This decision will kill thousands of people and make 0 difference in traffic once all the cars decide to park in the newly opened lane.