If you care about safety in…

If you care about safety in municipalities across the province of Ontario, and are actually committed to reducing congestion in our cities and towns, you will not remove bike lanes, nor reduce the opportunity to build more. Bike lanes are an essential part of efficient transportation infrastructure, and they save lives. All the research - around the world - shows that bike lanes alleviate gridlock. There is zero evidence to show that bike lanes contribute to gridlock. As elected policy-makers, you have been entrusted to make decisions that are well-informed, and that reduce harm, not increase harm. If partisan ideologies rather than research are behind your decisions, then you are not acting in the public interest, and your legacy will reflect that. Please do not be the government that caused more deaths on our streets.

It's not clear that you are familiar with "induced demand," but it means "if you build it, they will come." Bike lanes in Toronto have gotten people out of cars (including ride-share vehicles like Uber and Lyft), thereby reducing gridlock: "Bike Share Toronto statistics show that ridership on its network of shared bikes has increased dramatically since 2015, when 665,000 bike trips were made annually. In 2023, that shot up to 5.7 million trips." from https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bike-lanes-impacts-1.7358319

Please note the research links below.