As both a motorist and a…

As both a motorist and a cyclist I can tell you that bike lane creation in the city of Toronto has gone much too far. City council operates on the assumption that every bike lane created means less people in cars and the reality is that no one is abandoning their cars to cycle. Every major road I drive or cycle on that has bike lanes I see one or two other cyclists and hundreds of cars backed up in gridlock. What's more, in places where there were already bike lanes such as the Leaside Bridge, major construction (costing we don't know how much) has now created new boutique bike lanes to double the size. For a handful of cyclists who ALREADY HAD BIKE LANES going both ways. Again hundreds of cars caught in gridlock and 1-5 people on bikes.
Bloor West has lost two lanes of car traffic. And there is maybe 5-7 cyclists you would ever see. But cars stuck in traffic stretch as far as the eye can see.
Woodbine Ave, Eglinton...I could go on and on, street after street. I am a cyclist and a motorist. I understand both worlds. Believe me when I say it has gone too far.
And when you see trees and grass and concrete islands built in the middle of major roads it is hard to believe this is to benefit cyclists and not simply to gleefully punish motorists.
For a city that is supposedly strapped for money it seems there is plenty to splash around for the ravenous appetite of bike lanes