This proposed legislation is…

This proposed legislation is provincial overreach and introduces unnecessary red tape to city processes.

What's more, these decisions don't seem to be backed by any kind of evidence, which pretty overwhelmingly shows that bike lanes help reduce congestion, lower healthcare costs, and increase local business revenue.

If the province wants to help reduce congestion they should look into providing cities with injections of funds for public tranit. They could also potentially help cities hold companies to account who are bungling transit projects in the province (RTO in Ottawa, and whatever company is building the Eglington Crosstown in Toronto).