"Ontario is looking to fight…

"Ontario is looking to fight gridlock and get drivers where they need to go faster". Why drivers and not
simply people? Are my transportation needs less important simply because I'm choosing a bicycle over my car for as many of them as I can?

I've spent years cycling to work, to take my kids to daycare, to go and spend money at local businesses, to visit friends and family etc. It's baffling and disappointing that the current provincial government either does not understand that people cycle for all sorts of practical and essential reasons, or pretends not to.

The Premier's well-documented personal disdain for cycling and cyclists should not stand in the way of municipalities making well-reasoned decisions about transportation infrastructure. It defies logic that the province is somehow better equipped to make hyper-local decisions like this.

On top of all of this: building more lanes for vehicles leads to induced demand. I'm not including references to support what I'm saying here because there is a significant body of research which does so. I already pay plenty of provincial tax so that the provincial government can develop relevant expertise, which it is manifestly failing to do in this case.