As someone who started…

As someone who started riding a bike because of the accessibility that the Bloor bike lane provided me as a student at the University of Toronto, I find the proposed bill despicable. Spending taxpayer money to remove an asset used daily by hundreds of cyclists year-round is counterproductive and antisocial.

The removal of the bike lane would come after a year of a mounting death toll from bike-related accidents and is totally tactless and disrespectful to the families of those victims and everyday cyclists. The removal of the bike lane would not cause Bloor to become a two-lane road. Rather, it would promote more on-street parking, further causing traffic and endangering cyclists as they are made to weave around and navigate much closer to vehicles than previously.

In recent years, the bike culture in Toronto has escalated as more people access the lanes as families, for their livelihood, to transit the city in an eco-friendly manner, and as a hobby. It is regressive, disrespectful and dangerous to make the changes proposed in the bill.