Hi there, I have lived in…

Hi there,

I have lived in this city my whole life, and have lived in an apartment building near Bloor for the last 18 years (I am 10 minutes away by foot, so I am very close).

I do not own a car. I don't even have a license. I get around the city mostly by foot, with some TTC use peppered in.

Though I'm not a driver, it's plain to see that these bike lanes have been influenced by some asinine ideology, and not actual reality. Because every time I walk down Bloor street, I see a sea of car congestion, and next to no bikes. I see bikers that have zero regard for traffic lights (which they routinely flaunt) or fellow citizens. I see entitled babies that have further handicapped an already bursting-at-the-seams metropolis. They do not care about people with families, that must use a car for shared travel. They do not care about the elderly who can't ride a bike, the disabled, and frankly freedom of choice when it comes to transport. They do not care about small businesses that are losing foot traffic and the ability to make an honest living. These same people who would shake their ironic fists at large corporations and grieve the loss of the ma and pa shop. They don't even care about 911 vehicles that can barely maneuver in traffic because the necessary extra space has been taken up by physically ramped up lanes, complete with idiotic pylons and concrete parking spot slabs (total overkill if you ask me but the babies must be placated). I've come to realize that this city hates itself, and bike lanes everywhere are yet another manifestation of that. So thank you for restoring a shred of functionality (and dare I say sanity) back to this over-priced, over-hyped city. Bikers are not saving the world. They are destroying the livability of this place and even undermining their own environmental goals by having countless vehicles idle endlessly while average people are just trying to get around in a region plagued by snow and cold for half the year. I only hope that this change in direction will stay in place for a long time. And while you're at it, please consider getting rid of the speed bumps on every residential street. They're totally ridiculous and solve nothing. I'm sick of city council taking a helicopter-parent approach to everything in this place. Pretty soon we're going to need a city permit every time we convert oxygen into carbon dioxide.