The bike lanes through the…

The bike lanes through the Bloor West Village is for lack of a better word insane. I am born and raised in Swansea and even my friends who are cyclists acknowledge that it was a bad idea (one of which was seriously injured in the lane heading East near Runnymede due to poor planning and visibility). I work in the Bloor West Village and Etobicoke and there are days that it has taken me almost a half hour to get from Royal York to Jane St and forget it if the Subway is down and TTC buses on on Bloor.

Emergency vehicles can not get through at certain times, between the No right turns on red lights that have been put in and the planter boxes there is no where to pull over to the side to let the fire truck go by until the light turns green and the front car can move. Also it has hurt business including my own as the bike lanes have taken over the parking spaces which have been removed.

Just yesterday it took me almost 15 minutes to find a spot in the Green P parking at Armadale and Bloor as they are always full. This was a very bad plan and not only were parking spaces removed but the city decided to up the price of a parking ticket. I am all for bike lanes if the street was 6 lanes wide then it would have worked,

The should be pulled back to at least Lansdowne from Islington.

I have spoke to Councillor Perks office numerous times very cordially and the response and the attitude is that they just don't care and that was proven the other night when Mr Perks went on TV to talk about the radar camera on Parkside Dr being vandalized and he right away talked about putting the bike lanes onto Parkside.

I am a very frustrated constituent that wishes that Doug Ford would not have changed the City of Toronto foot prints for councilors as i believe this never would have happened if Gord Perks riding would have not been extended west of Keele.

Thank You