This bill will not have any…

This bill will not have any purported positive effect if passed into law. Bike lanes offer an alternative to driving reducing the number of cars on the road. Replacing bike lanes with lanes for cars will see those lanes marked by the pre-existing congestion this bill is trying to prevent due to induced demand; those who would not other wise drive on those non-existent car lanes now will and fill them up no differently than current ones.

This bill also creates unnecessary bureaucracy. Municipal governments often have the resources and intelligence gathering powers to gauge where bike lanes will best serve their own communities. Where they don’t, the province should be enhancing those powers at the municipal level, not undercutting municipalities of the agency to decide what their roadways can and cannot look like.

This bill is absurd. The creation of new bike lanes should be incentivized and not treated as a nuisance.