This is absolutely the most…

This is absolutely the most stupid and poorly thought out amendment to the Highway Traffic Act. It is well studied in several academic, observational, and other well documented studies (public and private) that bicycle lanes have a POSTIVE impact on businesses, health, and traffic congestion. Appointing the Ministry to approve bike lanes is an a perfect way to waste the publics time and money by delaying the approval process. From evidence of previous projects (GTA West now Highway 413) we can see how this government has fumbled important infrastructure projects and drawn them out as long as possible and wasted public money. The government should concern itself with allowing municipalities to plan their transportation planning with the experts they have. Municipalities are perfectly adequate in doing their transportation planning and have an elected council who vote on these recommendations.

Removing bicycle lanes is setting this entire province back 20 years which is not an Ontario I want to live in.