Bike lanes have been an abysmal failure. We've tried them, so what I say is not conjecture. Experiment is over.
The only thing that will make getting around Toronto better is fewer cars and mor people taking public transit, cycling or walking. There is no other way. Experts know this. Evidence tells us this.
A driver's number 1 obstacle is OTHER DRIVERS. Get more of them out of the way and those who MUST drive, such as tradespeople, will be better off.
This cultural myth of "the war on the car" is actually a "war of the car against other cars as far as the eyes can see and beyond".
Dogmatic and failed car-centric thinking over multi-decades is how we got here to this situation of "cars battling cars for every spare centimeter of paved and pockmarked tar from here to Timbuktu". Doubling down on this failure does not equate to reason or success but to just more and more of the insanity that got us here and a continuing future of failure upon failure upon failure
The city of Toronto should not be seen as just a place to get through, but what it really is, a place to live.
Who is Toronto for? Executives, elites and the self-entitled "door-to-door motor service" motor vehicle drivers who have scant to non-existent societal attachment to the urban, inner core of Toronto and it's vibrant, social, cultural and familial local neighborhoods that they adversely impact 365 days a year with their selfish, self-centered motor vehicle twat-like attitudes and behaviours?