This is an absolute joke of…

This is an absolute joke of a bill, and yet another example of this government's lack of evidence-based policy making. As the climate rapidly warms as a result of carbon emissions, we need to get more cars off the streets, which, opposite to the supposed logic in this bill, requires more bike lanes and investments in public transit to incentivize the community to seek car-alternative travel options. Further, it is apparent (highlighted by its idiotic obsession with building more highways and the 401 tunnel) that this government has not heard of the proven concept of "induced demand". Removing bike lanes will only incentivize more drivers to travel on these streets and will quickly cause the same amount of, or more, gridlock. Again, this points to the need to get cars off the road.

In a city as dense as Toronto, for example, travelling by bike is more efficient, and if more investments were made into bike infrastructure that increase the safety of bike commuting, even more people would consider it. Bike lanes are also cheaper to maintain than roads primarily travelled by car.

Cyclists should have the right to travel on their bikes, as motorists do in their cars, to their destination SAFELY while using the most direct route, which means major roads. This government needs to repeal this legislation and stay in their lane.