The very fact that…

The very fact that provincial politicians and the Premiere of Ontario are even talking about bike lanes is a huge overstep of governance. Our Premiere and his administration should instead focus on restoring funding to public healthcare, schools, regional transit and other Ontario-wide issues. If he wants to get involved in local municipal politics he should resign from the Premiership and run for mayor or city councillor.

In the year 2024, where we are in the midst of a climate crisis, an affordability crisis and gridlock, in what planet does it make sense to remove bike lanes, one of the only options for people to commute quickly, affordably and efficiently taking up so much less valuable real estate in our cities that single occupant vehicles. Single-occupant vehicles are the issue causing traffic, not bikes and bike lanes. As our cities continue to grow, its only going to get worse unless better options like bike lanes and efficient transit options are available. Relying on single-occupant vehicles is not a sustainable solution for the future.

I also despise the rhetoric that Cyclists are second-class citizens compared to motorists. Why does someone driving a car get priority for road use over someone on a bicycle? Cyclists are taxpayers, business owners, customers and most importantly citizens of Ontario and need to be treated with the same level of respect by our governments. The adversarial nature of the way that this government speaks about cyclists continues to create divisions which may ultimately lead to fatalities when people are jostling for space on our roads. The blood of future cyclist fatalities will be on the hands of this administration.