Incredibly foolish plan…

Incredibly foolish plan. Bike lanes help to prevent lethal accidents- which the province has acknowledged as being a major contributor to traffic congestion- and the idea of creating MORE construction in downtown's highly congestible areas just to remove bike lanes that have already been established is, frankly, poorly thought-through. Common study findings have been that bike lanes overall improve traffic flow- and I believe that adding more car lanes in downtown would have very little positive influence on traffic flow. Additionally, requiring provincial government's approval for cities to keep or build bike lanes seems like an unnecessary bureaucratic factor that would unnecessarily slow down traffic improvement projects across the province even further, and would be a waste of our tax dollars to boot. I am of the opinion that the costs outweigh the benefits for this movement, and as a citizen of Ontario, am strongly opposed to the proposed framework.