Good day. I am an Etobicoke…

Good day. I am an Etobicoke resident who uses the bloor Bike lanes daily for my commute, leisure and errands and I feel very strongly against the proposed legislation.
I feel that this is designed to be a wedge issue to make Ontarian's forget about the corruption of Doug Ford and his government. Somehow there’s no funding for education and healthcare but the government can find the funds in the public purse to destroy publicly funded bike lanes in an egregious overreach of provincial power against the municipality.
As we can see in the bill:

“SCHEDULE 3

HIGHWAY 413 ACT, 2024

The
Schedule enacts the Highway 413 Act, 2024. Section
2 of the Act provides an exemption from the Environmental
Assessment Act for enterprises, activities, proposals, plans and
programs for or related to Highway 413, including the Highway 413”

Hidden in the bill is the ability to bypass environmental assessments for highway 413 which is going to be built through protected
Greenbelt lands. The ministry of the environment must speak out about this bill and untold negative environmental consequences from the 413 and the encouragement of driving polluting cars.
Please, this bill cannot come to pass. We must encourage alternative transportation like bikes and transit if we can hope to have any future at all.
-A concerned citizen