I am a working student…

I am a working student downtown. The many bike lanes across downtown are extremely important for my day to day comunte. I currently go out of my way to use the bike lines on university ave and bloor St because of there quality of pavement and security I feel when using them. When I lived near bloor I had many near crashes because cars would encroach on the bike lane and potholes on the street. The new bike lines have fixed these issues by creating solid concrete barriers between cars and the bike lanes. The protected intersections have given me more confedance to use the roads.

I use the bike lanes every day to get to school and work as well as for leisure activities with friends. I try to avoid streets like spadina because of there lack of cycling infrastructure.

If the bike lanes were removed I would seriously think of switching to using a car causing more traffic in the downtown core.

The current bike infrastructure on bloor and university are extremely important to me and are the safest I've ever felt while cycling in the city.