What an absolutely…

What an absolutely ridiculous proposed bill. I hope the authors are embarrassed. Any bill with the intention of reducing congestion that doesn’t even mention public transit is just laughable. This bill seems to be designed to get more people into cars, and trying to take away vital alternatives such as cycling. Cars cause congestion; getting people out of singularly occupied cars would be the greatest thing to reduce congestion. Increasing bus and train riderships, promoting walking, cycling, and active transportation, carpooling, travelling outside of rush hour; these are things that reduce congestion, not building vanity highways or removing bike lanes. Where are the proposal to increase the number of trains, to make them more regular and travel in both directions all day, how about reintroducing bus services between major towns and cities, or comments on the new subway lines? Also, I thought that red tape and provincial oversight was supposed to be being reduced. Why in the world would municipalities have to get provincial approval for installing bike lanes when so many other decisions are at the municipalities discretion? Finally, has any type of impact assessment been done on how this will affect cyclists and users of active transportation, and how it will make using those more dangerous? How many people will die or get seriously injured because of the removal of bike lanes?