Cycling lanes are extremely…

Cycling lanes are extremely important for the city of Toronto. Without them, you can't safely travel through the city with your bicycle.

If you remove lanes, you will have less people that will choose the cycling option to transit, thus resulting in more cars being used, which in terms increases the congestion in the city.

Densely populated cities don't scale up by enable more car transit options, but by facilitating healthier and faster modes of transportation like subways and cycling.

You need to think in terms of physics. Consider Toronto to be a pipe of a given fixed diameter (total of roads/lanes), within this diameter you want to be able to fit the most amount of people to have the most optimized flow (transit speed). A single person in a car takes the space of 2-3 bikers/walkers. For cars to be a scalable solution, they would need to be shared between people. You would need constantly 2 to 3 people per car at any given time, for it to be as efficient space wise as bikers or walkers. This is equivalent to using subways or trams. Subways being even more efficient since they only take underground space that is unused.

The idea in this act is to remove a bike line to replace it with a car lane, thinking that this will widen the diameter of the pipe. But in reality, it doesn't because you are simply replacing bicyclers with drivers 1 to 1 since most cars are individually used.