The purpose of our roads and…

The purpose of our roads and our transportation network, is to move people. Some people drive, some cycle and some walk. Increasingly cycling is a growing mode of transport, especially on Bloor street. There are estimates that 40% of through traffic on Bloor is now cycle traffic.
If you just look, it doesn't seem so because cycling is so much more efficient than driving, that it appears that there are very little cyclists. That's because cars take up so much more space.
If the province forces the city to remove the Bloor bike lanes, it will not improve traffic. It will make it worse. Maybe not all of cycling traffic that goes through bloor will continue cycling there, but many will. The result will be mixed traffic where drivers will have to contend with cyclists in a more direct way. This will be even worse during non-rush our time when the cur lanes will become parking. On top of this not solving congestion, it will also make our roads far less safe. The city saw a 60% reduction in vehicle/cycling/pedestrian altercations after the installation of the bloor bike lanes. The province is literally proposing more injury and death to falsely claim traffic congestion will improve.

The worst part is that this is all a distraction. It's a distraction from the province bypassing environmental protections to build a highway nobody wants except for the developer donors to the conservative party. Ripping up prime farmland to increase urban sprawl, pollution and degradation of our green spaces. Ultimately increasing traffic as the people living in these communities have to drive, putting further pressure on our other highways instead of reducing them.

Overall this bill will do the exact opposite of what it claims. It will put more drivers on our roads, remove safety and increase gridlock and overall traffic. Not reduce it.