Hello! I am an Ontario…

Hello! I am an Ontario resident residing in Kingston.

I wish to comment on the proposed Bill 212, the “Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act.”

Given the nature of rapid climate change and its effect on the food chain, extreme weather events, forest fires and population migration, I feel it is unwise to oppose any effort to increase the number of Canadians using non-vehicular forms of transportation. Bike lanes keep cyclists, and increasingly users of electric scooters safe from vehicle traffic, reducing the number of cars on the road and the amount of CO2 gas emitted into our atmosphere. Not to mention the help it does to bring physical activities to people's lives especially those in cities with less and less green space.

Furthermore, I believe traffic management and road planning is best handled by the municipality where much more scrutiny can be applied. Cities and towns have a flow to them that isn't always apparent to outsiders, and their traffic planners are in the best place to decide when and where to install bike lanes.

Please invest more into trains, bike lanes and family doctors. This and more highways are not the long term solution for our great province.

For these reasons, I strongly oppose Bill 212.

Sincerely,

A Kingston, Ontario resident.