- harmful to those who…

- harmful to those who cannot drive
- infastructre is working well and difficult to remove
- adds unecessary red tape and oversteps into municipal decisions
As an Ontarian without a driver's license this change would drastically lower my ability to get where I need to be in reasonable times.
The bike lanes explicity stated to be removed are very useful to people getting to the places they need. They have infastructre that would be needlessly difficult to remove and are good at encouraging people who want to cycle to actually do so. Ridership on these lanes has increased well with the work that has gone into improving these lanes and routes for cyclists. A single additional lane of car traffic in these areas would not compare to the capacity of a fully utilised bike network, in effect increasing gridlock as the road is filled with the people who were cycling being forced to drive.
This proposal is also overstepping what the Ontario government should be doing. Bike lanes already need to go through their municipal governments to be approved, so requiring another provincial review of potentially all existing bike lanes that took space from motor vehicles is absurd. There is no need to add unecessary red tape to upgrading infastructre for the residents of the municipalities. The provincial governments job in transportation infastructure should be in getting to and around cities. Once inside the cities, the municipalities should decide for themselves how best to control transportation.