In many cases there are more…

In many cases there are more vehicle lanes than we need. More lanes encourage more cars and don't alleviate traffic. They just encourage more personal vehicles instead of encouraging public transit, walking, and biking. This is why I am against Bill 60.

Reducing automobile traffic is good for our air quality, general health and wellbeing (fewer accidents, road rage/stress and a way to encourage walking and biking), and also helps to encourage nodes of urban density and walkability through transit-oriented (densification) development. So it is good for developers! Downtown Toronto has a lower obesity rate than outer suburbs (an indicator of better health) because the lifestyle of people living in a walking-friendly/biking-friendly/transit oriented neighbourhood is healthier. Why not provide this advantage to more parts of Toronto and the GTA? We should provide the advantage of safe walkable and bikeable streets with nearby transit nodes to more of our population, not less.