The province has no business…

The province has no business interfering with decisions made by municipalities in areas where they have explicitly delegated powers to those municipalities. The province is not equipped to understand each and every local environment as is necessary to make decisions on local transportation elements such as bike lanes in every municipality and region, and for the province to gain that insight would be an unnecessary and wasteful duplication of bureaucracy that already exists at the municipal level. Ontarians are already represented by elected officials - their councillors, aldermen, mayors and reeves - who are capable of making decisions on the local transportation network on behalf of their constituents, without provincial interference. And if the province were interested in influencing the balance of preferential treatment between modes of transportation, there are broader approaches available that do not require such duplication and interference. Finally, the obstruction of bike lane expansion will not achieve any of the supposed goals of this legislation; bike lanes provably make roads safer for all road users, and also improve traffic conditions *for all users*, while promoting a mode of transportation that offers benefits on a wide variety of environmental and public health measures. This bill as written clearly exists solely because Premier Ford does not like bike lanes, and believes his supporters do not either. If enacted and implemented, it will serve no one other than Premier Ford, to the detriment of all road users, including motorists, and ultimately to the detriment of all Ontarians.