This bill will not work. The…

This bill will not work. The idea of removing bike lanes won’t reduce gridlock as is shown in every other major city around the world. New York a city with much worse traffic then Toronto when they removed a lane and installed bike lanes saw a significant reduction in traffic. This bill should be retitled to “Bill 212 inducing traffic in Toronto” because it will simply tap into a phenomenon that’s been recognized since the 1960s that when you add car lane capacity you will simply fill that capacity and end up with even more traffic. This bill is using intentionally misleading information as “traffic has increased since the installation”. Ignoring that traffic increased in places where more car lanes were added more significantly and that will occur on all roads and streets in Toronto again. If the province wants to reduce gridlock it should fix the lack of transit in Toronto and fix the inability of drivers to understand road regulations. Not to mention the safety of road users are at stake as Car collisions kill more Torontonains than Gun violence unfortunately Cyclists and pedestrians will die when hit by a car and it happens very often with how road users are unable to follow the law on cyclists. Regardless this is the province overstepping it’s boundaries as the added maintenance of these larger roads inevitably will be on the city to foot the bill right. Unless the province plans to pay for road maintenance too this won’t help anyone car drivers will still be stuck in traffic in a year (worse traffic with much more bodily injury and fatalities), it snubs cyclists of the right to be safe on the roads, and it will cost the city money to maintain, adds more red tape to do something the city already has enough red tape for.