I oppose this proposal on…

Commentaire

I oppose this proposal on two primary grounds:

Firstly, as provincial overreach: it should be up to the municipal governments to decide where bike lanes are or are not installed in their cities. Municipal government officials are more intimately familiar with their city's infrastructure needs than their provincial counterparts, and they are also more accessible to the residents actually impacted by such decisions. It does not make sense for the province to micromanage local decisions such as these.

Secondly, as operating on a flawed premise: the idea that bike lanes make traffic worse. This idea is not supported by data (in fact, providing viable alternatives to driving can actually improve traffic rather than worsen it) and also ignores the benefits biking infrastructure provides to those who use it.

Ultimately, this proposal is a misguided approach to a problem that is outside of the province's purview and should therefore be rejected.