This is choosing to…

This is choosing to willingly endanger the lives of bikers while simultaneously making traffic worse.

Opening more lanes has never been an effective solution to traffic. When you look at major cities like la or Houston who open more lanes they still have traffic, while the additional lanes encourage people to drive more.

If you remove bike lanes on key streets such as university, there are no replacement streets to place these lanes - should they instead go on Yonge? Or bay? Why spend millions of dollars to open new bike lanes when the current ones work just fine

You are moving to force bikers onto major roads instead or to purchase cars or take Ubers. All of the above make the traffic problem worse. Soon drivers will be complaining about bikes taking up space on the roads and will have to drive even slower to avoid hitting them.

This is a waste of taxpayer money.

If traffic is truly a concern the province should move to ban parking on these roads, heavily fine and enforce drivers who obstruct traffic, and even consider implementing congestion pricing to make the direct contributor to traffic (drivers) pay for causing the problem - spurring more of them to take public transit, carpool, drive during off peak or bike.