The Government is using…

The Government is using faulty, outdated data to 'support' its case for removal of cycling infrastructure.

One of the supporting data points cited by Doug Ford's Minister states that only 1.2% of the population uses bicycles for transportation, but this data is from 1991! 34 years ago! Seems like an attempt to cook the books with faulty data to support faulty legislation.

"We know that these bike lanes, where only 1.2 per cent of people use to commute to get to work, are taking away almost 50 per cent of the infrastructure on those streets from vehicles," Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said. False data, taken completelty out of time and out of context.

Ontario cities and towns in general, and Toronto in particular, need MORE cycling infrastructure, not less. Cycling traffic on major shopping streets is a positive, not a negative. Cyclists are more likely to visit business on streets like Bloor and most Toronto BIA support increasing cycling infrastructure.

Removing existing cycling infrastructure from Toronto roads is a costly, regressive step. Akin to the first term of the Ford government when he cancelled partially completed clean energy projects, costing taxpayers billions of dollars to undo useful energy projects.

The government should be prioritizing the Eglinton Crosstown project, and other mass transit projects. Instead they seem intent on building massive parking lots near Lake Ontario, massive highways through our farmlands and Greenbelt, and destroying existing hard-won cycling infrastructure in Toronto.

Mr. Ford is not the Mayor of Toronto, but he wishes he was and acts like he is. Torontonians wish he would stop bullying us.