I have been riding a bike…

I have been riding a bike through the streets of Toronto for 20 years. It's how I discovered the city as a boy. Riding on the street was considered dangerous back then, and it still is, but Toronto's efforts to create proper continuous biking infrastructure across the city has started to bear fruit. The Ontario government is manipulating data to underplay utilization and effectiveness. There are many parents and children riding the streets that would not otherwise dare.

You ought to be ashamed after the pomp and pandering about giving power back to the municipalities. This government has done nothing but run roughshod over the wishes of Canada's greatest city. The Premier has had it out for the city ever since it rejected him. The electoral math is also obvious. Doug Ford does not care what Toronto thinks. He's also obfuscating the true cost of removing them, a waste of time and effort.

The issue of congestion is caused by poor planning, not bike lanes. The city is designed for 1 million inhabitants but has 3 million instead, with another 3 living in the immediate vicinity. Consult professional transportation engineers, you cannot fix this problem with more cars and roads. The solutions are public transit, denser communities, and more bike lanes.

Leave city planning to the cities. Stay in your own lane!