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I don’t even need to hark the usual talking points which point out the benefits of cycling infrastructure because the ministry has probably heard them more than enough.

Instead I’ll provide my personal experience. Cycling infrastructure has allowed me to take so many trips without needing to use my car. Need to go to T&T? The Clark bike lanes are there for me. Need to pick up my car from the dealer? The Willowdale lanes help me get there. Unfortunately, visiting any business along the Yonge stretch between Sheppard and finch is hard for me without either paying astronomically for parking while getting stuck in traffic, or walking for an eternity. This legislation further delays the construction of this project, to the point where I might not even be able to provide support to the businesses in my lifetime until they shutter up.

This legislation adds unnecessary red tape to getting these road diet projects approved and built (in a party that platforms off reducing red tape!!), and because of its blanketed nature, it impacts ALL projects regardless of whatever the traffic study tells you. I work on them myself. 90% of the time, the results tell me that traffic will be fine after a lane reduction for bike lanes.

Please reconsider this and put my taxpayer dollars into something that actually matters. How about your ongoing transit projects? A traffic squadron for OPP to enforce traffic on the 401 which is often jammed because of crashes? How about reconfiguring the interchanges between Weston and Black Creek? Healthcare? Education? Anything is smarter than this