Hello! Hope you're having a…

Hello! Hope you're having a nice day.

I'm here to voice my opposition to bill 212. Decades of research shows the failure of adding lanes to reduce traffic and congestion, since the traffic throughput is bottle-necked by INTERSECTIONS. We have to trust the science here.

Adding lanes only worsens our living spaces, making them less pleasant, less safe, more expensive to maintain and use for travel (since you'd need a car + insurance to use it), all the while doing basically nothing to actually improve our transportation woes. Empirical research shows this will worsen traffic by inducing more demand for car travel (check links for more on that)

As public trustees, I implore you folks to do more research into this. It's frustrating and, I'm sad to say, quite embarrassing, to compare our traffic issues with my European friends who live and travel in and around comparably dense cities to Toronto or Ottawa, but they have infinitely safer and more pleasant routes and destinations due to their investment in solutions that put PEOPLE FIRST instead of cars.

Always prioritize public transport, trains and bikes.
Also, please give the linked videos a listen, if you have the time. The people there are a lot better-researched and more qualified to make my points than I am. You can find their resources and citation links in each video's description box.

If you want a real win with people, do what's best for them, instead of helping erode the social and environmental guardrails we've thoughtfully put in place in the past to prevent bad actors from degrading our living conditions for their own profit down the line.

Thanks for hearing me out!
Much love.