This policy endangers me and…

This policy endangers me and my friends and family who use these lanes. It endangers the independence of local government. It endangers all citizens, as emergency services have confirmed their response times as well as accidents on these routes have reduced since the lanes' introduction. It endangers anyone who makes it to the hospitals in Toronto, as they requested these lanes for the 2/3 of their staff who commute by bike and would be at risk of being on the opposite end of a hospital bed thanks to feelings-don't-care-about-facts decision-based-evidence-faking. As Ontario's own recent data shows that for trips starting or ending in downtown Toronto, 26% are drivers and 9% are personal mobility users like bikes and scooters, that means over 26% of those we need to focus on are users of these lanes, while they have nowhere near that share of road space, and if anything we should increase it due to both mode share and actual greater capacity shown in every study of roadways. Play politics with your own lives, not mine. We do not need to waste money and sacrifice lives to pretend like your choice to drive is the only or the universally best choice: it is not. Respect my freedom to not live in a Conservative communist society where I am only supported if I drive, but instead let me live in a freedom loving society where I have the choice, not a government making it for me, to give up space in a wide car lane for you, by going into a more efficient and narrower bike, transit, or pedestrian lane.