I am commenting on Bill 60. …

I am commenting on Bill 60. I disagree strongly with the Province taking decisions on bike lanes that properly belong to the applicable municipality. These decisions require balancing the interests of the affected residents and businesses, together with other users of the street or road in question - motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. We delegate these decisions to the municipality because a) they have the expertise to balance these interests - such planning and design activities have been the purview of the municipality for decades, and b) they are elected by the citizens who are most affected by the decision, therefore they are held appropriately accountable in municipal elections.

The provincial government wants to override this careful municipal decision making, because of its political agenda -
- not because it thinks it can make better decisions than the municipality, since it clearly is not staffed and does not have the expertise to do so,
- not because it is more accountable, since the provincial government is elected by everyone in the province, the vast majority of whom have nothing to do with the decisions on road design in a given town or city.
This is the worst kind of interference in municipal decision making i have seen in 30 years of living in Ontario, and i urge the government to reconsider.