The idea of closing down…

The idea of closing down bike lanes is a terrible one.

We should be promoting bike use not demonizing it. The sedentary life style we have is not sustainable. The pros of improving bike accessibility far outweighs the cons. Thanks to bike lanes, it was possible for me to go to work without taking a car.

This is good for the environment, good for congestion, good for my physical and mental health. It allowed me to contribute more meaningfully to the economy by saving on car expenses and purchasing more locally.

Making Bike lanes harder to build and destroying current bike lanes all for just 'one more car lane' is a fool's errand. Those who even proposed this should be ashamed of themselves. While this may improve traffic on the short term, induced demand will maintain the current traffic flow over time and is not sustainable. To reduce traffic, we need to improve scalability of our finite resources. We need to get more vehicles off the road. This means more biking and public transport options.

Please reconsider. This is a disastrous policy and will harm Ontario overall.