I am a cyclist, pedestrian,…

I am a cyclist, pedestrian, driver and transit rider in East Toronto/ Scarborough. I use the Martin Goodman Trail and Carlaw, Cherry, Simcoe and Commissioners bike lanes for almost 6 months a year. Daily! The scariest part of my journey is riding on Queen East between parked cars and streetcars or speeding SUVs who use my hood as a highway. If we had safer transit options— Go and TTC, we could use that more often, but the vehicles run rarely, are too crowded and full of people with aggression problems and of course some lines still arent built! Riding my bike can be scary but it is the best of the poisons. Not everyone can afford two cars or parking downtown. Or wants to drive 10km and sit in traffic for 60min. If the premier of Ontario wants to interfere with cities trying to keep cyclists alive, I and all lot of other tax-paying citizens who voted our mayor and councillors in are left wondering why Toronto doesnt get democracy? And lets face it— this is anti-Toronto. How about the province gives us the Eglinton and Finch LRT? Like— working? And more Go trains stopping at Danforth? And more money for TTC and construction speed on Gardiner ramps and lanes? Do you know it can take us 3 hrs to get from East Toronto to Hamilton in the weekend? Thats not bike lanes. Thats one lane open on Lakeshore. 2 on the Gardiner. Subway and Go shutdowns. Ludicrous. Do better. And leave cyclists alone!