This proposal is bad and…

This proposal is bad and should not go through. The way to fight gridlock is not to give more of our public space to cars. Numerous urban development studies across the world have amply demonstrated that when you add lanes of traffic, the only thing that changes is the volume of cars that eat up those lanes of traffic. If this government actually wants to decrease gridlock across the province, the only evidence-based way to do that is to increase investment in public transportation as well as bike infrastructure, so that there are alternatives for transportation that people can reach for beyond a car, which is the most space-inefficient way of moving large numbers of people. This proposal will not accomplish any of its stated goals, and is merely artificially increasing barriers to non-car transportation for the sake of pandering to the premier’s political constituency.