This bill is a provincial…

This bill is a provincial overreach that will add red tape and bureaucracy that will waste taxpayer money. Municipal road design is the municipality's responsibility and burden. If their design is bad, locals will complain, and it's up to the municipality to fix that, not the province. While that may be subjective opinion, here's some objective data-based proven facts:

Due to induced demand, any roads with removed bike lanes will see even more traffic and gridlock within a few months, not less. Studies have found that "each 1 percent [increase] in capacity results in a nearly 2 percent increase in travel". Removing lanes to add bike lanes gets more people onto bikes and public transit, which reduces congestion for the remaining drivers. Suburban drivers benefit from bike lanes as much as city-core cyclists do.

This bill is a shortsighted attempt to fix congestion which will actually make it worse during construction, better for around 1 to 3 months after the lane opens, and then worse than it is now after 3 months when twice as many people start trying to drive in that new lane. And all this at a massive cost to taxpayers.