Removing bike lanes is only…

Removing bike lanes is only going to increase gridlock by encouraging more people to drive vehicles. Municipal bike lane and traffic calming initiatives like those implemented by Kitchener have demonstrated that they caused no measurable negative impact on commutes, as this bill implies. On the contrary, they've improved cyclist AND pedestrian safety, as measured by the number of reported incidents.

If Ontario really wanted to reduce gridlock it would let municipalities continue to have sovereignty over their road management, and instead focus on making cross-municipality commuter public transit options more appealing, which means better availability, reliability, speed, and reduced cost. For example, getting a dependable service between Waterloo region and Toronto that is faster than the average vehicle commute would significantly reduce the vehicle traffic between those regions, making more of the existing roadways available for personal and commercial vehicles.