i'm all for reducing…

commenting in my personal AND professional capacity as a downtown Ottawa Resident and cycling and triathlon coach.

i'm all for reducing gridlock. but adding lanes to highways is not the way to do that. there have been multiple studies on "induce traffic demand" (see below). adding lanes would increase traffic, not reduce it.

but here is the MOST IMPORTANT mistake in this bill....
municipalities should NOT require provincial approval for building bike lanes. municialities should know how important bike lanes are, both for commuting and for leisure (and if they don't, they ought to... they have the demographic data). fewer bike lanes = more bikes on the road = more injuries and deaths. there should be FEWER obstacles to buidling bike lanes, not more.

do all you want to attempt to ease congestion, but preventing bike lanes is stupid and dangerous

"induced traffic demand" studies:
https://www.ucdavis.edu/magazine/does-widening-highways-ease-traffic-co…
https://www.thecgo.org/research/does-expanding-highway-capacity-solve-u…
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/06/21/the-science-is-clear-more-highwa…