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Bill 212 is an extremely antiquated approach to attempt to solve congestion.
There are many studies such as the ones in the URLs below that show expanding more highways will not solve congestion in the long term. In fact, it will make it worse.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58x8436d
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856423001465
We need to invest heavily into multiple modes of transportation to provide people with more choices of which mode of transit to use. This will get cars off the road so that only people that need to drive are the dominant road users and will help traffic flow better.
The proposal of this bill is so backwards and is completely against what other major and minor cities worldwide are doing in order to move people more efficiently.
Bike lanes, mass public transit, regional rail are much better investments than more road capacity for cars. Cars are an inherently inefficient way to move a large number of people. They have their place in today's society, but we cannot afford to keep on investing in cars and not people!
Submitted November 3, 2024 2:49 PM
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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 - Framework for bike lanes that require removal of a traffic lane.
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