I don't understand why the…

I don't understand why the province must oversee municipal projects like bike lanes on major and side roads in cities, particularly existing bike lanes. I believe the province has more important issues to tackle with available funds, such as providing adequate healthcare in our province and providing living wages to healthcare workers and teachers, as well as improving transit systems in our province which will help reduce traffic congestion more than opening construction on roads to remove existing bike lanes.

I think removing existing bike lanes is a costly exercise that will waste taxpayer funds and will not improve safety or congestion. According to CBC News, removing bike lanes on Jarvis Street was even more expensive than implementing them. According to the CBC report, installing these lanes cost $59,000 in 2010, and removing the bike lanes on Javis Street in 2011 cost $200,000. This leads me to believe that future projects removing recently implemented, existing bike lanes will be wasteful regarding resources and taxpayer funds.