If Premier Ford removes the…

If Premier Ford removes the bike lanes on Yonge, Bloor and University that the city of Toronto has continuously improved and made more permanent after careful consideration, I think this would be a colossal waste of our taxpayer money and be a massive step backwards in sustainable transportation. The separated bike lanes increase the safety of cyclists, allowing many of my friends who were too scared to bike on normal roads without bike lanes bike around Toronto for the first time. For drivers it also allows them to be separated from cyclists too so that they do not need to be worried about hitting someone on a bike as likely.
Gridlock will only get worse by getting rid of bike lanes, all these cyclists will then have to drive cars increasing the number of cars on the road. More parking spots will need to be devoted to this increase in cars in the downtown core.
I ride on the Bloor bike lane everyday and I am outraged that the Premier wants to remove them as a political stunt to his suburbanite base that does not even live in Toronto.
The Toronto city council has clearly voted 21-4 in favour of urging Ford to leave our bike lanes alone, and let the city council govern its own city as it should.