I disagree with this bill…

I disagree with this bill and the removal of bike lanes for multiple reasons:

1. It will be expensive to remove the bike lanes.

2. Bikes are much smaller and move people much more efficiently, if you remove the bike lanes all of those people using them will have to drive which will increase gridlock.

3. This is a provincial government overreach into something that should be a municipal concern that just adds unnecessary red tape slowing down progress, and creates additional work for government employees when they could be doing other things.

4. Bikes are a very environmentally friendly, with the climate crisis we should be doing everything we can to reduce emissions (and not go backwards).

5. When we see low bike usage compared to cars we need to remember that we have decades and billions (maybe even trillions) of dollars of infrastructure built specifically for cars. We are just starting to get our biking infrastructure started and it is incomplete. A person would be much less likely to dive if their road suddenly stopped, so we need to understand the context of low bike usage, we need more biking infrastructure not less.

Thank you for your time.