I cannot comprehend what…

I cannot comprehend what roundabout thinking it takes to presume that removing bike lanes is in any way a solution to any issue this city has. Toronto literally just spent tons of tax payers' dollars - and struggled through many months with a major roadway under construction - to build out the bike lanes on Bloor. And all that work and money did exactly what it was supposed to; Decongested vehicular traffic due to single lane traffic only, made biking a safer option for cyclists, made sidewalks safer for pedestrians, increased foot traffic to local businesses.
To do it all again just to remove these lanes is not only idiotic from a tax dollar perspective, it also won't change the issue of overwhelming car traffic. The main reason why traffic is so bad is because the TTC has become completely unreliable. People sometimes find themselves waiting 7-10 minutes for a train during rush hour, 15-20 minutes in the evenings. The green line regularly chugs along at a pace comparable to walking (I genuinely cannot count the times it's taken more than 5 minutes to get from Dundas West to Lansdowne station). There are near constant construction-based closures of stations on the yellow line, and the amount of unforeseen issues and trespassing pauses on the green line seems to be increasing daily. And this is for the transit services that have their own dedicated area! Streetcars and buses are also dealing with the overwhelming road traffic on top of mass reductions in route regularity.
This decision would take us so far backward in the effort of making this city not only commutable, but livable. It feels like a thinly veiled attempt to offer a construction contract to some provincial buffoon's buddy, with the hope that more cars means more $100+ parking tickets. It's completely ludicrous, and it must not happen.