hello Ontario Please do not…

hello Ontario

Please do not remove the bike lanes. The dedicated bike lanes make cycling on the city's busy downtown streets much, much safer. The safety, health & wellness of bikers should not be sacrificed to make car traffic a little faster in the city. On a recent bike ride along Danforth Ave, I was very grateful for the bike lane, which protected me from traffic.

I would add that the bike lanes were implemented by the City of Toronto. The province has not explained why the province is seeking to assume responsibility for something that is clearly the city's 'lane'. To use the expression, the province should stay in its lane. The province is free to introduce bike lanes on highways, or not, as it would see fit.

Cities the world over are expanding their bike lanes for reasons of the safety of bikers, to make biking easier for cyclist. For the province to remove the city's bike lanes would be regressive, and telling the people of Toronto that the province has little regard for cyclists, pedestrians or the environment.