Requiring bicyle lanes to be…

Requiring bicyle lanes to be approved by the Ministry is overstepping from the Province. Bicycle lanes in a City is a municipal jurisdiction and not a provincial one.

Removing bike lanes will NOT fight gridlock. There is traffic jams in areas where there are no bike lanes. If you remove bike lanes, cyclists will still use it and it will create confusion on the roads and won't address gridlock.

To address gridlock, it needs to consider the number of CARS on the roads and construction jobs that take away street space. In order to reduce the amount of cars on the roads, the Province, in collaboration with municipalities, should diversify ways to move in the City, by funding public transit (for instance) and enourage biking. Every cyclist on the lanes could represent a car less on the road, so removing lanes may be counterproductive. By removing lanes, you can create more gridlock, do not create equitable streets, ignore diverse ways of moving, and prevent people their freedom and safety for biking, which is a sustainable means to move and can help fight climate change.

Bill 212 will do more harm than it will do good.