Municipalities are…

Municipalities are responsible for their own roads; it's clear government overreach for the provincial government to be telling municipalities what they can and can't do with their roads.

But even beyond that, if we actually want to be solving traffic problems, we should be focusing on the one thing that can actually reduce traffic: reducing the number of cars on the roads. How many decades have we had of adding another lane to our highways, only for the highways to continue being clogged with traffic? Contrast with the pandemic, when there was little traffic on the roads because there were so few cars on the road.

Bike lanes, especially separated ones like we're starting to see in places like Toronto, encourage people to use bikes instead of cars, thus reducing the amount of traffic on the street. And if bike lanes are removed, it'll force bikers into the same lanes cars are trying to use, slowing down traffic and making the lanes less safe for everyone. Or those bikers will take cars instead, increasing the amount of traffic, worsening the problems this legislation is claiming to be trying to fix.