Municipal governments are…

Municipal governments are better placed to make decisions about roads and road users.

Traffic congestion is a complex issue and making more lanes of traffic available to cars often does not lead to less congestion. Construction, parking, how drivers use roads (blocked intersections are fairly typical in downtown Toronto during rush hours) have more far more impact than bike lanes on select roads.

Every person on a bike is one less car on the road while in motion and one less car in the road while parked. Protecting and encouraging road users who are not causing congestion with a car is a better long term solution to traffic congestion.

Not to mention walking and cycling are healthier ways (for our environment and our bodies) of moving around the city than driving a car.

We should be encouraging people to find car alternatives to moving around and not making infrastructure changes that make non-car modes of transport less safe. Doing so will just mean more cars and more congestion.

Please allow municipalities to make their own infrastructure decisions. Constituents elected their municipal representatives to do this NOT the province.