Please withdraw this bill…

Please withdraw this bill immediately.

There is no evidence that bike lanes increase gridlock. There’s no transportation planner who would recommend this.

Bike lanes are an important way to improve safe choices for people to get around so they don’t need to drive, particularly now that e-bikes have made cycling less physically taxing, especially for longer journeys or when carrying cargo, like kids or groceries. A connected grid of cycling lanes is critical to allow people to choose to bike instead of driving.

The province currently provides no funding for municipal cycling lanes. Asking municipalities to submit these for provincial review will cost provincial staff time and increase health care costs due to injuries. Across the province cyclist deaths and serious injuries have been increasing while the same stats stay the same or fall for drivers. Preventing even one accident saves tremendous costs for the province and more importantly for individuals and families.

Please target this effort to more enforcement of existing traffic rules (for drivers, especially delivery services, and cyclists) and addressing impacts of construction on traffic which are each more significant contributors to gridlock.