This is a terrible proposal,…

This is a terrible proposal, with no real motivation other than to win points during election season and appease drivers. By overstepping authority, ignoring the planning autonomy of municipalities and creating yet another layer of red tape, it will actively discourage alternative modes of transportation (bikes and e-bikes), making the roads both more dangerous for existing users and more forcing more people into cars or ubers etc. From all accounts, these policy changes are not based on any evidence other than anecdotal accounts from drivers along Bloor Street in Toronto. Encouraging people to use public transit and other forms of non-car transportation should be encouraged, not discouraged. The environmental cost of all the vehicles on the road (especially thanks to companies like Uber, which have little regard for municipal, safety or environmental regulations) is large, and we should be promoting cycling infrastructure. The fact that the provincial government is going to "review" existing bike lanes is outrageous and will potentially undo years of progress to making the streets safer for *all* road users.

The insistence on highway 413 is also ridiculous, and will do lasting damage to the environment and green space. There are environmental assessments still to be completed, and drafting legislation that allows for the government to skirt those is irresponsible at best. In plowing ahead with this project, the government is ignoring their own studies which show extremely limited benefit to the highway, as well as the potential environmental course. Please instead invest in better and more efficiently-built public transit.