I am a car driver and bike…

I am a car driver and bike rider in downtown Toronto. I am very concerned by and in strong disagreement with this proposal to remove pre-existing bike lanes from Toronto. The available data and research shows that bike lanes do NOT cause congestion (https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bike-lanes-impacts-1.7358319) and therefore this will be an utter waste of tax payer dollars (i.e., dollars previously spent to put in the lanes and again to remove them). If anything, the road work to remove any lanes will only worsen congestion. This is not progressive but regressive. Let's do better and find evidence based ways to help people move around this city. This is not a solution but a waste of money that ultimately does nothing to help traffic, wastes money, and endangers the lives of cyclists.