I support bike lanes in the…

I support bike lanes in the city that are properly assessed in the context of all types of commuters. Unfortunately, it seems a lack of planning has been done to deal with traffic flow. Traffic flow in the city of Toronto is broken.

In particular, what is being done along Avenue Road and Davenport Road has completely stalled traffic in and out of the downtown core. It’s further aggravated by the bike lanes on Young Street, as drivers are detouring from that road.

It doesn’t appear that anyone in the city has done a proper cost benefit analysis of these bike lines. There are very few bikers using them as compared to the amount of cars and buses on city streets. Antidotally, I generally see less than a handful of bikers on Avenue and Davenport as I sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

It would be interesting to know how many people are no longer going into the office for work given awful commutes. I imagine this has a negative impact on revenue generation in the downtown area. Toronto already had a poor reputation for commute time, which is now significantly worse given the number of bike lanes that have been rolled out throughout the city.

Given Toronto city council has made a mess of city road planning, I support the Ontario government removing the majority of Toronto bike lanes.