This is truly a stupid,…

This is truly a stupid, short sighted, and cynical piece of proposed legislation. The bike lanes on Bloor, University, and Yonge have removed a tiny, insignificant, fraction of a percent of the city's motor vehicle capacity, but they have allowed a huge increase in the number of people who now have the option to leave their cars at home.

I drive. Everyday. To work sites all over the GTA. Anyone with a brain knows that traffic is everywhere. It is not caused by the (small number of) bike lanes around the core.

If you want to improve driving for tradespeople like me, who actually need to drive to job sites, you need to give people alternatives to driving. If you want some short term gain, go after the selfish drivers who speed, cause accidents, block intersections, and stop in active lanes of traffic. After all, it's not cyclists downtown who make my drives from site to site difficult; it's the number of cars, and selfish drivers who cause delays. Removing bike lanes is a waste of public money and the government's time. Any MPP who supports this legislation will be responsible for all the injuries and deaths that happen to cyclists on these streets, should these bike lanes are removed.