This proposed legislation is…

This proposed legislation is both idiotic and anti-democratic in intent. Idiotic because the intended target - congestion - will only be reduced by the encouragement of public transit and non-car alternatives. This proposal goes in the opposite direction. Anti-democratic, because it involves the use of provincial power to interfere with the traffic decisions of municipalities. Decisions by the people most affected can be over-ridden by bureaucrats and politicians who are both distant from and ill-informed about the problems being addressed.

And this consultation process seems to be a sham, not least because the government fails to provide any justification worth the name for the proposed measure. How about a study of the interaction between bicycle lanes and overall transportation? Nothing like that. Too difficult, So we will stick to legislation by gut feeling.