Reducing grid lock can only…

Reducing grid lock can only be achieved by reducing the number of cars on the street. This is accomplished by encouraging alternative means of transportation: buses, trains, bikes.

This bill will accomplish the precise opposite of this by encouraging more people to use space inefficient forms of transportation: usually a large car with a single person inside.

The city of Kitchener found that the “ development of the downtown cycling grid has resulted in a 164 percent increase in ridership, with 54,781 cycling trips in the first seven months of 2023”. Each of these represent fewer cars on the streets.

A study linked below shows how improving bike lanes and routes encourages other means of transportation, and make traffic overall safer.

A CBC piece linked below shows how bike lanes actually reduce congestion by reducing the number of cars on the streets.

Please reconsider the actual impacts a bill like this would have in our traffic.