I am wholeheartedly…

I am wholeheartedly disappointed in our Province for proposing such a dangerous bill that compromises the safety of its citizens by removing bike lanes and using this as a ruse to hide the fact that this bill permits the Province to to take lands from registered owners in order to "expedite building highways". The Province should not be granted such power that they can infringe on property owners without permission and public discussion. This Province continues to disregard provided facts and statistical data from the transportation and traffic experts that bike lanes do not contribute to congestion but primarily provincial infrastructure construction (eg: Metrolinx construction, utility upgrades). Furthermore, it has been historically proven that the solution to congestion in major cities around the world is not to build more highways, that only contributes to creating more traffic and congestion. Removing bike lanes will not stop cyclists from biking, but doing this will force them into sharing the road with ill-informed and aggressive drivers putting them at high risk to be killed. It also does not help that when collisions happen between a car and a cyclist, the general car-centric attitude of our provincial government is to side with drivers. As both a cyclist and a driver in Toronto I agree that congestion is a huge problem that needs to be addressed and people understand that traffic is expected in order to complete critical projects for infrastructure development (ie: public transit, utility maintenance, etc.), but Bill 212 is absolutely not the way to go about this. People do not have a problem with the Province trying find solutions to create better living conditions but they do have a problem with a corrupt government that puts its own needs and benefits above its citizens in pursuit of profits.