This is such an unserious…

This is such an unserious policy proposal. If the Premier actually wants to reduce gridlock (as we all do), he needs to embrace the data and the science that shows that other forms of transportation need to be made more safe and attractive in order to entice those who do not absolutely have to drive out of their cars. This means increased funding and condensed timelines for building and maintaining TTC and GO and and bike and pedestrian infrastructure. Ripping out bike lanes will only increase traffic congestion because this proposed law will force people who have already made the jump back into their cars. It also means an increase in senseless and completely avoidable road violence and death for vulnerable road users.

My primary issue with this proposed law, however, is that Ford is not the Mayor of Toronto and has to stop fixating on us. His jurisdiction is provincial affairs and I resent the province consistently overstepping and overriding municipal sovereignty. As he has said to others many times, “stay in your lane”! We elect city councillors to make decisions for the city and they are the people best positioned to make these decisions as they know local issues best. The Province needs to stop interfering in local democracy!