This bill is not based on…

This bill is not based on data and will do nothing to improve gridlock. Research shows that bike lanes either reduce or have negligible impacts on travel times, make roads safer, and increase visits to local businesses. It has also been shown that increasing the number of car lanes actually worsens traffic by increasing usage. Reversing existing bike lanes and attempting to block new bike lanes will therefore do the very opposite of what this bill’s title claims.

Toronto is a city that was not built for the number of drivers we have. What we need are forward-looking policies that actually deal with the problem instead of looking for political scape goats. The only real long-term solutions to gridlock involve removing cars from the road by incentivizing alternate modes of transport. This includes installing bike lanes, improving public transit, and instituting city road tolls, as many major cities around the globe have done.