Repeated studies have shown…

Repeated studies have shown that bike lanes eventually reduce gridlock. I moved to Toronto in 1976. Traffic was awful. Now, almost 50 years later, we have the same streets and same highways within the city. There are also more than twice the number of cars, although the streets are no wider. You can't tear down homes and lawns to make them wider.

Many solutions have been tried in other cities. London, UK, for example imposed a tax on vehicles coming from outside. Not sure how successful that was. Other European cities (yes they too have winters), have embraced cycling.

We seem focused strictly on cars, but all one needs to do is look on the Gardiner Expressway to see what more and more cars causes. Something has to give. Bike lanes are ONE solution. However, only where they make sense. I'm inclined to favour properly thought through solutions to implement these. Bloor Street makes sense. It's wide enough to accommodate them. North Yonge Street makes NO sense. Spadina, Bathurst, University Avenue, etc are excellent locations for these. Smaller and more restricted streets are not.

The Province's solution of banning cycling lanes seems poorly thought through. It ignores the increasing traffic congestion and pretends that allowing more and more cars is the solution. Just as you can only put so much water through a garden hose...you can only accommodate so many cars on our current roads. Can't do more. Can't build more roads, so common sense logic suggests looking for alternatives. The current government doesn't appear to be thinking this through.