Toronto had 125,000 more…

Toronto had 125,000 more people join the city between Jul 2022 and Jul 2023, making us one of the top—if not the top—growing cities in North America (link attached).

We only have so much road space to go around, but removing bike lanes on Bloor/Yonge/University is not going to reduce gridlock. Cyclists will still bike—often out of necessity because they're a far more economic option—and these cyclists will be in more danger when sharing lanes with cars. And drivers won't be happier either with more cyclists taking up space in "their" lanes.

Cars are one of the most space-inefficient and expensive ways for people to move around a busy city like Toronto, and making more space for them is simply not the answer to gridlock.

Imagine if even a third of those 125,000 new Torontonians from 2022–2023 bought their own car into Toronto...the lane space gained by removing dedicated bike lanes would do nothing to reduce that massive increase in car traffic.