Removing bike lanes seems…

Removing bike lanes seems like a colossal waste of tax payers money, and would be better served being used to either improve transit further, or encouraging taking cars off the road via other means.

The ultimate driver of traffic is the need to drive absolutely everywhere, and if we reduce that we can have noticeable reductions of traffic.

The most immediate reduction in traffic we can have is by providing incentives for wfh instead of forcing people back into offices. For every worker we can keep off roads, that is another vehicle not stuck in traffic. Covid showed us what a reduction of vehicles ultimately means for our roads.

Bikelanes provide alternative means of travel, and if we remove them, we just put the cyclists on the roads themselves, which move slower than any car, which would just make traffic worse. Ever have to share a lane with a cyclist in traffic?

by keeping bikes separate, we keep roads moving.

Besides, bike lanes etc will do nothing for our highways which will continue to be clogged no matter how many lanes we add.

Bike lanes should first and foremost be a municipal matter and I do not want our provinical tax dollars going into removing them.

Perhaps ultimately are largest issue in this province is car centric development, and we're not focusing enough on peoples ability to get by without a car. Perhaps if the jobs weren't so over concentrated in business districts with downtown and affordability wasn't such an issue, people wouldn't need to drive absolutely everywhere to get by.

Traffic congestion is well studied, but we dont ever seem to listen to the experts and we keep trying the same thing we've been doing for 50+ years. Maybe the solution isn't more expensive roads, but offering alternatives that could be more cost efficient long term. How much money do we poor into keep our roads in good shape every year?