We should be making an…

We should be making an effort to reduce car traffic (and thus reducing emissions, reducing noise, and improving pedestrian/customer traffic to local businesses) by installing more bike lanes and public transportation, rather than increasing traffic, noise, and pollution by adding more car lanes. Time and time again, it has been shown adding more lanes does not improve traffic.
The lack of use of some bike lanes is due to a lack of complete bike lane networks. You would rather use a direct route rather than a bunch of side streets and a dirt roads, or even worse, parking lots, parks/lawn, fields etc. with ANY vehicle. When our bike lines start and stop over short distances, of course you are going to see reduced traffic on them. With more complete bike lane networks ridership goes up. Take a look at "I Can't Believe I Have to Make This Video" (2:06-5:30) by Oh The Urbanity!, it is a very informative video on the topic of bike lanes that shows Bill 212 is a very ignorant proposal that will waste time and taxpayers money.
I even bet removing the proposed bike lanes would increase stress on the subway system.
I would honestly love the opportunity to bike to work! Why don't I? Well the bike lane infrastructure is just not there. Haven't you heard? "Build it, and they will come.", "You can't justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a river"-Brent Toderian.
Hey while we're at it, why not get the cars off the street car routes? I bet that would make public transportation more efficient and reduce repair costs. See "How NOT to build public transit (Toronto's Streetcars)" (2:10-3:20) by flurfdesign.
Let's be smart about this and think ahead, cars and urban sprawl are not the way of the future.