Bill 212 is incredibly…

Bill 212 is incredibly backwards, especially given this climate crisis and clear data that adding lanes for cars and removing bike lanes is anti-reducing gridlock.

Reducing cycling lanes will not only lead to the reduced physical safety of many road users, it will also result in increased congestion and gridlock. Induced demand, which means travellers from other routes, modes, and times, will use up that additional capacity and the system will return to equilibrium and the same level of service as before. There is simply not enough physical space to have enough lanes for everyone to sit in a 5 x 2 m steel box (aka car), the math doesn't add up. The only way to reduce congestion is to have better transportation demand management, which means getting some portion of people to use transit, bikes, and walk... so that way only the people that need to drive are driving.

If you actually want to reduce gridlock, provide users with alternatives: add more bike lanes, add more frequent and reliable transit, and enhance the pedestrian realm. This will not only reduce congestion, it will also enable healthier citizens and more sustainable communities.