As a Toronto driver, I think…

As a Toronto driver, I think this legislation is ridiculous. I drive on all three of the streets singled out for potential bike lane removal and the traffic along them is no worse than it has been for the last 5 years in a big city. What has delayed me is construction along these routes to build bike lanes, but that was worth it because I’m now less worried I’m going to hit and kill the many cyclists that use these roads both before and since the lanes were installed. The bike lanes have therefore reduced my stress as a driver. If another several months of construction starts to REMOVE those lanes and make my travel MORE stressful I would be a lot less serene about it. Furthermore, the city process for deciding where and when to install bike lanes has been totally appropriate in my opinion, and it’s been efficient. The construction to make them was some of the fastest and least disruptive I’ve experienced and the full routes were completed very quickly. I don’t want future construction to be more complicated and go through a longer approval process by two levels of government, costing more of my taxpayer dollars when the city is doing just fine on its own. Save my hard earned money and let them handle it, and don’t undo perfectly good work that already got done!