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Hello, my name is Vincent and as someone who commutes on a bike often, this bill is distasteful, wasteful of gouvernement funding and feeling distrustful if this bill does go through.
Removing bike lanes doesn't fix traffic since adding a lane just increase more people on the road and doesn't reduce the amount of people who goes on it. Anytime we add a new lane, it reduces the traffic for a week, then there's more people than ever before and it's worst after. Look at any new lane "upgrade" in United States, it causes more people to go on the road and creates *more* traffic than necessary.
If people are complaining about bike lanes *existing* on the road, the next thing that people and yourself will be complaining about, is that bikes being are now *On* the road, which in turn, will cause more traffic and more accidents, which will also increase more traffic, and the cycle goes on.
If you really want to reduce traffic, keep the bike lanes and instead of removing them; expand the bike lane network so that they can be off the road as much as possible so the drivers can just worry about the cars on the road instead both bikes and cars. The only time drivers should pay attention to bikes is when they are crossing the road like pedestrians.
Here's an example on "How a city died by limiting transportation to just cars":
In the U.S. there's a small city names "Bamberg" where they severely limited pedestrian crossing the road and made sure that cars could travel faster, it turns out that the city died shortly after adding a fence between streets.
Keep the bike lanes for safety reasons, financial reasons and the freedom of choice of transportation.
Submitted November 17, 2024 8:09 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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