This is terrible legislation…

This is terrible legislation on multiple levels, and is a tiny portion of an endless series of decisions by this government that has caused me, a nurse with an entire career ahead of them, to feel like there is no hope for any positive future for myself or family in this province. As a result, I've made the decision to leave and will never look back. This provincial government is directly accountable for every single argument in favour of leaving and has been actively growing an endless list of nonsensical, objectively poor decisions - there is clearly no fear or even basic respect for Ontarians, their rights, or their interests.

Regarding this specific bill - firstly, it is an absurd overreach of provincial power. Why is the province wasting its time and resources micro managing municipalities?

Second, ripping out pre-existing bike lanes is a complete waste of money.

Is the intention to reduce gridlock? Reduce the number of people in cars. Thats it. That is literally the only way to address the problem. There is endless data objectively demonstrating this. You will not solve gridlock with new lanes, or by pissing away billions of dollars on a tunnel. There is no data to support your actions, it simply doesn't exist

You need to

a) Divert people away from high density areas. People should not be going THROUGH Toronto unless their destination is in Toronto

b) Providing effective alternative transport methods such as robust public transit and avenues for active transport (LIKE BIKE LANES), so people have options other than driving

c) Change zoning laws to allow for more mixed use neighbourhoods so more people can live close to where they work so they dont have to commute, or at the very least, live close to shops and services so they can access the majority of what they need either without a car, or with a very short drive.

Blatantly ignoring evidence based solutions because the Premier has decided he has a beef with bike lanes for some reason will make gridlock worse, not better, and your time and tax payer money would be better spent addressing issues like Healthcare and Education (you know, *provincial responsibilities*) instead of micromanaging municipal affairs.

If the Premier wants to be mayor of Toronto so badly, he should resign and run in the next election, and leave being Premier to someone who knows what they are doing. He's already gerrymandered the ridings. But I suppose taking a C-suite job at Chartwell is a much easier retirement plan given all of the favours he will be owed from the rampant and insulting obvious levels of corruption brought on by your office.

Shame on every single one of you for selling this province out from underneath it's citizens. We had the opportunity and potential to be somewhere proud to live and have completely squandered it to the benefit of an extremely small number of people. Young people are waking up and beginning to flee droves, and you only have yourselves to blame.