As I pursue my theology…

As I pursue my theology degree at UofT I have been joyfully commuting by bicycle using the bike lanes that finally make me safe in Toronto. I always drive defensively, assuming I am invisible to car drivers and never assuming they will follow the law because my life is on the line. With separated bike lanes, finally, I can (mostly) just RIDE. I wonder at times when will I also be able to BREATHE without gulping lungfulls of exhaust from the mostly single drivers, idling as the bikes flow past them? Why should the luxury of sitting in a vastly polluting car be more important than my healthy choice — for planet, city and self? How dare you threaten us with unscientific, spiteful, culture-war rhetoric of this bill — removing bike lanes is a waste of public resources, will fuel MORE gridlock and put cyclists lives again in direct jeopardy. This kind of life-threatening bill is immoral, unethical, costly and innefextive. I believe it should in fact be illegal to do this kind of retrograde harm.