As a life long Torontoian, I…

As a life long Torontoian, I do not own a car.
I cycle year round, save for when there is snow on the ground (for safety issues)

I don't understand why removing bike lanes is being discussed, as we need more cars off the road to relieve congestion.
I use public transit as little as possible because it is unreliable and I think the money that would be spent removing bike lanes would be better suited being invested in the TTC

As for the argument that bike lanes aren't being used, I'd ask what the city/province has done to promote their existence? I know several bikes were built and in use for years before I even knew they'd existed. I avoided major arteries for safety reasons only to later find out a bike lane existed which cut down my commute time.

On that note, I do appreciate commute times are a concern, but I'd also point out that cutting 3 minutes off a cycling commute in the cold is more significant than for car, where people are in the comfort of a warm mobile shelter.

If you want to reduce gridlock, study after study has shown the answers is not more roads.
It's not more lanes for cars.

It's investment in transit, bike lanes and various other things that reduce the need for people to use cars.

Frankly, the idea that more roads and more lanes will help gridlock has been disproven over and over. Even the ON government's own assessment of the 413 has said this.

I'm disappointed by the government's lazy thinking here.
Let's build a sustainable province for the future, not a bigger version of something that only sort of worked 50 yrs ago.