As a driver and commuter I…

As a driver and commuter I do not believe this bill will help reduce traffic. For every bicycle there are, that is one less car on our roads. Less cars means less traffic. Destroying bike lanes means turning more cyclists into drivers which adds MORE cars to the roads and causes MORE traffic. I would personally not be driving if I felt safer riding a bike and I do not believing making it more difficult for bikers to travel makes any sense if we're trying to reduce gridlock.

It is difficult enough to make any changes within the municipality for road infrastructure, and mandating provincial approval authority adds more red tape and bureaucracy to an already bureaucratic process.

Road infrastructure should be something that each municipality can study and understand themselves, not something that the provincial government should intervene with. Why should someone who might not even live in the city dictate how the city should structure its infrastructure? Someone from Ottawa or Toronto does not need to authorize whether a small neighbourhood in Milton can create a bike lane. Saying this is necessary is as nonsensical as someone from Canada dictating how streets in Paris should be designed.