This bill is a gross misuse…

This bill is a gross misuse of tax payer dollars and is overstepping provincial jurisdiction to impede on municipal decision making.

To begin, the proposed oversight of all new municipal bike lanes to the province will be a massive time misuse drawing the province away from larger more critical issues such as housing accessibility, reduction of cost of living and healthcare improvements all in the name of controlling municipalities right to make decisions which are best for their residents (of which the province does not have the same level of nuance and understand as the municipalities will).

The proposal to remove the recently completed bike lanes in Toronto is widely costly for works that are already completed and have not impeded traffic from my experience (as both a biker and car commuter). This is a misallocation of funds which should go towards more important and pressing issues like housing (perhaps funding the City of Toronto’s request for provincial funds to help subsidize affordable rental housing rather than declining to comment or discuss the matter).

I could go on about the environmental impacts of building then immediately removing critical and heavily used infrastructure and how critical it will continue to be as the share of bike ridership continues to skyrocket in Toronto.

This is a joke and a sham of a bill. Highway 413 serves no notable purpose and will not have any impacts on reducing highway 401 traffic. These funds could also be used much more efficiently. For a government who prides themselves on fiscal responsibility, this bill is the most unnecessary and useless spending of taxpayer dollars. As a taxpayer, please try to use our funds to actually fix something that is a real problem to us (like
Housing affordability).