To reduce gridlock in a…

To reduce gridlock in a meaningful and long term way, people need infrastructure that encourages them to get around WITHOUT their car. Bike lanes help to keep cyclists safe, and the bike lanes on these 3 roads are very heavily used. After being involved in a collision with a car last year I try to only cycle on roads with designated bike lanes. In a city like Toronto with a lot of tourists, people who aren’t accustomed to sharing the road with cyclists are extremely dangerous to cyclists, as are the countless Uber and taxi drivers.
The province has no business assuming they know what’s best for municipal roads. And Doug Ford’s government has proven time and again that it doesn’t care about the environment (bikes don’t emit carbon), the lower or middle class, and people in historically liberal areas. Our municipal government (that we voted for based on criteria like this) needs to be allowed to do their job without overreach from the provincial government.