I am a 33 year-old teacher…

I am a 33 year-old teacher from Toronto. I cycle and am looking forward to Toronto becoming a city with a great cycling culture with infrastructure (bike lanes, sheltered bike racks, signs and lights). We have to build the city we want, even if there is a delay in that vision becoming a reality. We need to keep the bike lanes, change driving culture to be safer (including down on cell phone use while driving and running red lights) and once people see that the bike lanes are being respected, they will come. If they see that they are unsafe, they won't use them. We need to use other cities as models and see what works in Toronto. Let's use our biking culture to promote our city's goals to reach net zero and reduce our emissions. Let's incentivize cyclists with tax credits on their purchases. Let's take good care of our bikeshare program and provide opportunities for kids, families to start cycling.