The proposal to over ride…

The proposal to over ride local municipalities decisions to implement local initiatives such as bike lanes is not acceptable.

It is my observation that municipalities do not implement such initiatives without consulting with their constituents.

The Province should focus its efforts to provide solutions to to provincial wide concerns such as housing, education, and health care.

The three major bike lanes that currently exist have increased safety for cyclists.

Vehicular traffic congestion is a result of underfunded and undelivered promised/ announced provincial public transit initiatives while municipalities are struggling.

Increasing funding to facilitate more frequent publicly funded transit ( municipal public transit , Go Trains, Go buses) is required so that we reduce 1) the number of solo drivers using existing roads 2) increased pollution caused by increasing number of fuel burning vehicles on our roads

Bike lanes offer safe and healthy routes for the public to transport themselves from one point to another.

Data provided by municipalities has shown that accidents between motorists and cyclists has declined with the separation of bikes from cars. Europeans , even with similar climates , have shown this to be their lived experience.

The provincial government should not enact this propose legislation as it wastes taxes to reverse the democratic process that was followed to create bike lanes.

Bicycles are not for the back streets .