We should not be removing…

We should not be removing bike lanes for the benefit of motor vehicles, bike lane expansion should be actively encouraged rather than quashed.

European countries solve commuting gridlock with mass transit solutions to great environmental and economic benefit. Canada is stuck in a progressive circular decline of increasing tarmac leading to increasing number of cars requiring increasing tarmac. Break the cycle and build cycle lanes! Discourage car use (low emmission zones, impose a tax or fine for use of vehicles in city centers, increase public transport use with government subsidies, etc). As a wider-reaching example, if money was spent improving and subsidising rain transport between Waterloo/Kitchener and Toronto, there would be no more 401 gridlock.