There is no data to back-up…

There is no data to back-up the claim that bike lanes cause congestion. Cars cause congestion, and the more people out of cars the better.

Bike lanes are also shown to support commerce on streets, two studies below state this, and it was seen on Montreal's Cristoph Colombe.

More bike lanes = more bikers = less traffic. Studies show this.
I have seen this in Toronto, Montreal, Paris, NYC. I have biked in all of these cities before and after increase of bike lanes. and there are far more cyclists on the street after the infrastructure is creaeted.
They may not be filled 100% of the time. but the same is true with roads.

I grew up in Toronto, and now live in Ottawa. Ottawa is terrifying to bike in, and people here don't want to do so, and choose cars, because it's so unsafe. Bike lanes disappear at dangerous intersections, are inconsistent, drivers assume no one's on them, and you can't safely get from point A to B on a bike. I do it for 8 months of the year and find it terrifying.

Toronto is so much safer, and the safer and better the bike lanes are, the more people will choose a bike over a car, which will decrease traffic.

This legislation will ruin cities, cost lives, and increase our contribution to climate change—an issue the Ford government just lost a class action on (Mather et al).

There is no data that this legislation will improve gridlock, but it will kill citizens. I implore you to not only keep, but add more bike lanes in cities, and see what happens. look at Montreal for example, which is increasing bike lanes every year, and paving them in the winter. The city has awful street parking, a great metro, incredible bike lanes, and less gridlock than Toronto and Ottawa.

"In Toronto, the city recently released a report looking at a section of the Bloor West thoroughfare where it installed bike lanes and other measures to make the area more cyclist- and pedestrian-friendly. It compared traffic from a period before the lanes were added, November 2022 to March 2023, with the same period one year later, and found "average increases in motor vehicle times ... from 2.4 to 4.4 minutes eastbound and 1.5 to 3.6 minutes westbound for travel between Runnymede Road and Aberfoyle Crescent, depending on the time of day and the direction of travel."

"For example, in New York City, the authors shared figures from the city's transportation department that showed in 2010, before bike lanes were installed on a major midtown thoroughfare, it took the average car 4.5 minutes to travel from 96th Street to 77th Street. After the bike lanes were installed, it took just three minutes — a 35 per cent decrease. One of the reasons they cited for the change was the installation of a left-turn lane, which not only kept cyclists moving but also stopped cars from holding up traffic." - CBC Oct 22, 2024