Do not remove the bike lanes…

Do not remove the bike lanes.
As a diver I seen with more traffic on roads without bike lanes then roads with bike lanes. Traffic is cause by drivers changing or merging into other lanes as it causes the cars around them to slow down and in doing so causes all the cars behind to slow down aswell. This happens more as more lanes are added and I often see this when the right lane of the road is also being used for parking, meaning drivers have to merge to the left every time there is a parked car.
The bike lanes on Bloor, Young, and University are essential to the bike network of Toronto as much as they are to automobile network, and for the same reasons, being a long stretch road with little turns and detours making it faster to get places than having to link multiple smaller roads. Removing these bike lanes takes Toronto a step backwards in its image of a world class city.
Every time someone choses to take a bike to work, it takes a car off the road and along with it the space that vehicle takes up and replaces it with a much smaller footprint, (even when the vehicle is full, the occupants still take a lesser space if they were on bicycles) it eliminates the carbon emissions the vehicle would produce, it eliminates wear on the road surface the vehicle would produce, and it reduces strain on health care by contributing to a healthy lifestyle improving ones cardiovascular system instead of sitting in a confined space which reduces blood circulation leading to health issues over time.

Removing these bike lanes without replacing them with a better and improved system of bike paths along the same route is objectively the worst decision that can be made from this bill and I am surprised the bill has even gotten to the point that I have to write this comment.