As someone who commutes…

As someone who commutes using bike lanes, I feel it important to maintain and foster bike corridors. If not only for staying mobile within gridlock and accessing areas inaccessible by TTC for those who do not own cars, growing bike corridors makes for a contribution to lowering our carbon footprint and making Toronto a more walkable city. Toronto suffers from an incredibly poor pedestrian experience, and an already precarious biking experience, removing further bike lanes only takes us a step back from making Toronto an accessible city and taking meaningful action to reduce our emissions. Instead of removing bike lanes, please foster safer driving (many incidents arise from dangerous driving common in Toronto) and actual regulative infrastructure for bikes (safer turns regulated by bike lights, more physical barriers between bikes and cars). I think viewing bikers as the problem is the result of misdirected frustration at poor city infrastructure, not bike lanes and those who use them.