Rich people can afford cars…

Rich people can afford cars and driving in a car into downtown by themselves luxury and I love that for them, yay them!

Poor or poorer people can not afford a car or can not afford to drive a car they may own but can't pay the expensive parking fees downtown or they share their family car so the options for them are crammed into a TTC with all kinds of mental health explosions and discomforts.

Additional options are walking and biking. These are the options I choose. To allow for more people to choose these options we need wonderfully connected bike lanes from our outer surrounding suburbs making this delightful mode of transportation an option for them to choose. Safe, connected, fast, healthy, no bike traffic congestion.

I can't imagine ripping up our sidewalks and not allowing for people to walk. Similarly, I can't imagine ripping out our bike lanes and removing this choice.

The choice for rich and poor alike. Biking.

We can not let only rich choice and rich voice be heard.

Household incomes do not buy today 2024 what they bought in1980's. the rich who graduated from universities in the 80 and are relaxing in their luxurious sole ride into the city for the last couple of years of their working lives need not weigh in on this..... We need to listen to the commuters of the future. University graduates of the 2000- 2024 and beyond ... this growing cohort will not afford the sole ride into the city of years past... the bike lanes will become more and more used as they years of wealth disparity and disintegrating middle-class erodes.