This is a regressive bill…

This is a regressive bill that proposes unproven strategies which recklessly endanger Ontario's wetlands and ecological health, farmland and food security and citizenry and public health. Projections do not anticipate any material benefit (i.e. time savings/reduced gridlock) to the construction of such infrastructure, and in fact show just the opposite: notably time saved in the case of highway 413 would be only on the order of a few minutes compared with existing infrastructure. This is clearly an abuse of provincial powers and a siphoning of taxpayer money into development projects which do not benefit the people of Ontario, except for those few in office orchestrating this farce and the developers who would build such useless projects.

Further, the destruction of the newly constructed bike lanes along University Ave., Yonge St. and Bloor would also be extremely regressive. The answer to reducing gridlock in the heart of downtown is not to limit access to cyclists but rather to explore multi-modal solutions which would alleviate the burden of car traffic as the only means of transportation instead, which must inevitably be the case in the most populous city in Canada, where the streets can be only so wide, and the parking only so dense. Demand for access to the city must be met by other means, especially for those who live within the city and who would simply no longer need a car to get around--of which there would no doubt be many--all to the effect of reducing gridlock and saving time for all Ontarians.