This is one of the most…

This is one of the most misguided pieces of legislature that I have ever seen. We have an absolute CRISIS LEVEL budgetary backlog in our city that is caused by us having too many vehicular travel lanes. We are ONE BILLION DOLLARS behind in our maintenance and upkeep for municipal infrastructure and the biggest budget item is roads. The last thing we need is a law that prevents our municipality from converting extraneous traffic lanes to alternative, lower impact uses. In addition, Ontario's major cities are facing a public health crisis of maimed and killed cyclists because we are decades behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to building safe infrastructure for people on bikes and on mobility devices. Passing this law puts the blood of future dead cyclists and e-mobility device users on the hands of the party members who vote this in. My question for lawmakers: What will you say to your own family when you rip out a bike land and a cyclist later dies on the road you made less safe? And finally - bike lanes are not about slowing down cars, it's about our FREEDOM as Canadians to choose how we want to get around our cities. Stop taking the freedom of choice away. We need to build every road so that ALL modes of transportation are a viable and safe choice.