The current administration…

The current administration is trying to solve gridlock by adding more lanes and more highways, while at the same time, with this bike lane ban, restricting the actual solution.

The only solution to car traffic is viable alternatives to driving. Period. For short trips within a neighborhood that means sidewalks, bike lanes, and inner-city transit. For longer trips across town, that means more bike lanes and more transit. And for trips between cities that rely on these congested highways that certainly means more transit.

Cars don't scale. Look around the world and you'll see that cities with population densities like the GTA, like Paris, have recently had to reprioritize in the same way.

I implore the government to break free from its status quo bias that is reacting to busy car highways by adding more car capacity. This is a dead end. Instead the government should be encouraging the construction of transit and bike lanes. And YES protected bike lanes should exist on main streets. If restricted to secondary streets they prove less efficient, and fail in their goal to be a viable alternative to driving a car.

Mixed mode infrastructure everywhere. That's the solution to gridlock. It's going to take courage for you break the cycle though. You can do this.