Bikes move a significant…

Bikes move a significant volume of people more efficiently than cars do, in addition to promoting a more healthy lifestyle. Having learned a bit of transportation engineering during my undergrad studies at U of T, research has shown that "if you build it, they will come" and this has been proven to happen with vehicular infrastructure expansion projects. The false sense of improved traffic flow is short lived during the initial opening of say an extra lane, until the system reaches a new equilibrium where more people drive and you end up with the same grid lock. The same could be said with bike lanes being used more, except this has a positive outcome being that it takes cars off the roads, and due to the more efficient movement of people in bike lanes, should in theory alleviate traffic for Torontonians.