Provincial approval of bike…

Provincial approval of bike lanes is a serious overreach of provincial decision making. Municipalities should be able to plan their own road infrastructure for biking. It will be impossible for them to get anything accomplished if all planning needs to be approved by the province - this is the opposite of efficiency. Removing existing bike lanes would also be a big waste of public funds.
This is not an evidence based proposal, as there's no evidence that bike lanes increase traffic congestion in cities. Biking is an important mode of transit in densely populated areas; it's also cost effective. Bike lanes keep people who choose biking safe. The specific streets targeted by this proposal have many transit options, meaning that driving does not need to be the prioritized form of transportation on those streets. This part of the bill should be removed entirely, and the government should focus on provincial issues.