The proposal is absurd, and…

The proposal is absurd, and seems to be entirely divorced from reality. I tried searching for studies showing that bike lanes are contributing to traffic congestion here, to see how much of a problem is being addressed, and instead found dozens of studies showing the exact opposite. This makes perfect sense when you stop to think about it, since the more space there is for cyclists, the fewer cars there are adding to congestion. Instead, the proposal seems to position the Ontario legislature as knowing more about local conditions than both the respective municipalities and literal experts on traffic, but gives no reason why. Unless the aim is to make our lives objectively worse, this proposal has to be the most clear example of just unarguably bad government policy I've seen from this government. I really have tried to understand the reasoning behind it, but am at a complete loss.