This legislation is absurd…

This legislation is absurd. It won't even achieve its stated goals of reducing commute times and improving traffic. Induced demand says that more people will switch from alternate modes of transport to driving their own cars, which will dramatically increase the noise, air, and ground pollution, and make streets significantly more dangerous for everyone outside of cars.

All evidence currently points to getting people out of cars and into other modes of transport, as the only viable way of reducing traffic, yet this legislation proposes the opposite is going to happen... some how. Instead we will see car volumes increase, and traffic get even worse as we try to cram more vehicles into downtowns that were not meant to accommodate so many vehicles.

Even IF this legislation achieves its goals of reducing the amount of time it takes to drive a car from point A to point B (which it won't), where do all these cars park? We need to bulldoze many many more acres of land, be it existing buildings, or parks/nature, to build all the parking required to store all these vehicles. This in turn will make issues like flooding due to impermeable ground cover, pollution due to spills, exhaust, and worn tires, and noise due to engines and quickly moving vehicles, much much worse.

This legislation is the exact opposite direction that we should be going with this province.