As a bicyclist and as a…

As a bicyclist and as a motorist I think that this legislation is excellent. It is time to return sanity to city planning. The way things stand now with extra wide bike lanes that eliminate care lanes all demographics, bicyclists, motorists and pedestrians are losers. The congestion on arterial roads is both frustrating and dangerous and slows down the movement of emergency vehicles. The bike lanes are now being used by motorised electrical two-wheel vehicles of various sorts which are powerful and terrorise ordinary bicyclists--they should not be allowed on bicycle lanes! Pedestrians, especially senior citizens, also have a great deal of difficulty crossing the street because of the chaos caused by this mixing of traffic. Everything that is motorised should be banned from bike lanes to return sanity to them. Toronto is now one of the most congested and unpleasant cities to drive in in the world and this is all because of terrible planning, it is all because of our own doing. The late Jane Jacobs, the doyen of what makes good cities would be appalled by what has happened to the Toronto that she moved to because of its livability. In her last book she said that city planners have become completely irrational and I could not agree with her more.