This is completely…

This is completely ridiculous. The Premier, on a nonsensical and anti-fact crusade against bikes, is attempting to reverse years of progress we've made in infrastructure improvements. It is a fact that has been proven time and time again that when you incentivize driving, more people drive, and when you incentivize other forms of transit, people use those. By giving the province power to remove bike infrastructure and to prevent its expansion in the future, this bill will make commuting worse for *all* Ontarians, not just the "small minority" who cycle.

The argument often used by bike opponents is that a small number of people in Toronto use bikes. However, this is because cycling infrastructure is lacking overall, barren in many areas, and incomplete in others. Rather than taking the 2% average city-wide, which includes areas with no bike infrastructure, why doesn't the Premier consider that areas with developed bike infrastructure are greater than 10%? Shouldn't this lead to the conclusion that more investment in bike infrastructure will lead to a higher rate of usage and take more cars off the road?

The highest rates of bicycle usage in the city surround Bloor Street - logically, due to its dedicated bike lane and the many routes that connect to it. A reduction of even a few percentage points of usage, which the Bloor Street bike lane removal would lead to, could mean hundreds or thousands of more cars on Bloor Street per day, which, I submit, would cause even worse gridlock than is supposedly being caused by bike lanes.

As an Torontonian who both drives and bikes, I am very upset by the Province's attempt to destroy progress and eliminate a net positive for residents. The Premier's crusade against cycling will therefore make commutes worse for all Torontonians and should be disregarded like the nonsense it is.