There is no world in which…

There is no world in which we can build enough lanes on our streets and highways to keep pace. Increasing lanes does not increase throughput, due to the limiting factor currently being intersections, not the number of lanes. In addition, there are many negative effects this bill will likely have (increased cyclist deaths, extra costs for removing existing infrastructure, etc.) while the bill will ultimately fail at solving the one problem it is trying to solve.

If the conservative government under Doug Ford is actually attempting to solve the problem, they would invest in more robust public transit and bike infrastructure. Unfortunately, it seems like this bill is not meant to reduce gridlock or to save time for the people of Ontario. Instead, it seems to be a desperate grab to get around environmental regulations and ultimately, screw over people who are too poor to own a car. This has been made abundantly clear by the fact that the conservative government under Doug Ford cut the number of public hearings from three days to one, as well as the house debate time from a minimum of 6 hours to one hour (leading to having only 5% of the usual hearing and debate time). This is transparent corruption that the conservative party under Doug Ford believes that they can get away with, because they believe Canadians are too stupid to notice.