I find this bill a…

I find this bill a rediculous waste of time and government resources. The provincial government shouldn't be adding red tape and bureaucracy to slow down local governance trying increase transportation options. I use bike lanes every day as my primary means of transportaion and are essential to my daily life. I have watched the bike lanes on bloor be build up and improved over the last 6 years of my living on the Danforth and have felt the improvement in my quality of life. The city has invested millions of dollars to improve Toronto's transportation network and this bill would have it torn up, spending even more tax payer dollars to undo the progress we've made. We need to think about guaranteeing safety for vulnerable road users instead of just maximizing the number of cars you can fit on a road. Removing bike lanes to add more space for cars will not reduce congestion as seen in this research paper by Rand Europe which I have attatched below.

If you build bike lanes, more people will bike. If you build car lanes, more people will drive and congestion will remain the same. Toronto is a big city and is growing bigger. Cars are simply not an effective or efficient way to move around such large numbers of people in an city of this size. We need to invest more money in public transportation and bicycle lanes, not rip them up. The municipal government knows this and the provincial government needs to stop abusing it's power to inhibit progress.