Restricting active…

Restricting active transportation options in favour of more traffic is prioritizing speed over the lives of vulnerable road users. This will not only reduce safe options for cyclists and wheel chair users who use bike lanes often, but serves to further inflame a culture war that already leaves motorists with entitled attitudes performing dangerous maneuvers to try to « claim » the road from cyclists.

Reducing a traffic lane for a bikeway near me (O’Connor in Ottawa) made biking a feasible commute for me. I no longer need to use a car to get around, and have reduced traffic myself without adding pavement, removing green space and contributing to climate change.

This is a poorly planned and short sighted stunt policy snd should not be pursued