This is one of the most…

This is one of the most stupid things that I've seen the Government of Ontario propose to do (and the current Government has done a lot of stupid things).
This will not speed up car traffic at all because without bike lanes, booked will just need to take the regular lanes and cars will travel at bike speed at the most.
Furthermore it increases the rush of car-bike crashes and fatalities on these streets and increases the Province's liability for these crashes because the Province is actively making things unsafe.