Bike lanes are an important…

Bike lanes are an important part of our cities and have a negligible impact on congestion. Environmental assessments are a necessary part of construction, both to ensure that the nature that Ontarians enjoy is not destroyed, and to ensure that existing water systems will not be affected in a way that increases risks of flooding or similar situations that can be a direct result of paving over areas such as wetlands.

Ripping out existing bike lanes is a waste of taxpayer money perhaps only on par with the COVID-19 alert bracelets that failed to make their way to the public. Gridlock can only be solved by decreasing the number of cars in dense urban areas (people should not be driving through a city's downtown unless their destination is in that area), providing alternate means of transportation such as public transit and active transit, and creating safer spaces for pedestrians. This will have the additional affect of increasing traffic to smaller businesses in the area.

The Premier's actions suggest that he seems to think of himself as a city mayor, rather that the person responsible for managing an entire province. I would sincerely rather see action directed towards our abysmal rates of new housing construction, underfunded health care, or our floundering education system.