Bike lanes help diversify…

Bike lanes help diversify urban transportation options. I suggest we build an even larger network of safe bike lanes so that they will be a more viable option to city residents.

Removing bike lanes will only lead to more cars on the road and continued gridlock.

Fundamentally the city is not designed for cars. Motorists should be dissuaded from driving in the city. Alternatives like improved public transit, an elite, world enviable network of bike lanes, improved commuter trains and beautified pedestrian sidewalks....promenades!...should be invested in.

You have to improve the alternatives. Go trains need to run more often from more suburban areas. TTC has to be cleaner and safer. Bike lanes have to be separate from roads. Metrolinx will be great.

City driving should be limited to existing urban residents, emergency vehicles and "working vehicles". I don't suggest this be policed, but I suggest it become part of the intentional language around urban driving. Change the talk.

Parking should be removed from much of the downtown area. In this way people, other than existing urban residents, will be forced to find another way to get into the city center.

Traffic fines should be increased for illegal parking/stopping in the downtown core.

There will NEVER be enough room for cars in downtown Toronto. The only way to ease congestion is to prevent cars from entering the core.

Drivers need to realize that you just CANNOT drive downtown. Stop trying. It is delusional to think that the city roads can handle the volume of cars that "want" to drive downtown...bike lanes or no bike lanes. It was never built to accomodate the level of cars that want to drive downtown...and it never will be!

The only solution is to do it differently. Other cities have had to do this too. There are effective models in place to follow.

New residential builds should not include parking.