Will removing bike lanes help reduce traffic congestion? [Video]

Bike lanes line many streets throughout Halifax with more expected to come.

It’s welcome news to Lucas Thorne-Humphrey who both cycles and drives a car.

“Infrastructure like that is really important to a city for its livability as well as our climate footprint,” said Thorne-Humphrey.

It seems those in Ontario disagree. The Progressive Conservative government is fast-tracking legislation which would require municipalities to ask the province for permission to install bike lanes when they would remove a lane of vehicle traffic.

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The Ontario government also plans to go one step further and remove some bike lanes in Toronto to restore them as lanes for vehicles.

“I think it’s very surprising to see that,” said Dalhousie University transportation professor Ahsan Habib.

“We have done so much over the years to start moving away from car culture.”

An image indicating a bike lane in Halifax is seen on Oct. 29, 2024. (CTV Atlantic/Joel LeBlanc)

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