"Establishing a framework" -…

"Establishing a framework" - adding additional red tape that prevents cities from making effective choices on climate goals, congestion management, and managing their own streets - is wasteful, inefficient, and will be ineffective.

Beyond that - tearing our existing bike lanes will cause months of additional traffic snarls along main and side roads and cost millions of dollars, all for the goal of establishing one more lane of traffic flow. Study after study - and endless driver experience - has revealed that just adding one more lane results in one more full lane moving people slowly and ineffectively - this is borne out by decades of history in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Toronto, and numerous other cities. If your goal is to increase ground level emissions of fossil fuel pollutants and engine noise while not actually addressing congestion, you're on the right track.

There are a number of more effective and more environmentally responsible ways you could look at this:
- Increase transit service frequency
- Lower point of service cost for transit to incentivize ridership
- Establish more dedicated transit corridors like the highly effective King Street pilot
- Establish a tax credit for people that use transit on a regular basis
- Incentivize remote work to keep people out of the downtown core when their job can be effectively completed remotely
- Improve enforcement of existing traffic laws to keep traffic flowing efficiently
- Remove or increase the cost of street parking and increase the penalty for parking outside of posted hours to keep existing lanes of traffic available during busy hours
- Implement congestion tolls/entrance fees for people entering the city in private vehicles during peak hours

Cities of the future must be built to minimize the use of single-occupant private vehicles. These devices are inefficient in terms of fuel consumption and road space consumption and they spend more than half their time parked, empty, and useless.

In short and in summation, this framework should be scrapped before implementation.