This is not a good piece of…

This is not a good piece of legislation. Deliveries, cyclists, pedestrians, car commuters and public transit all need to share the road, and the best body of government to decide how to manage municipal roads is municipal legislators. By moving the authority for such management to the province, we're increasing provincial legislative workload but removing management authority from legislators who live and work far closer to the problem at hand.

The province has no business regulating the by-law governed spaces of municipal roadways, which are better directed by the mayoralty or local urban representatives.

In addition to this, the current provincial government seems dedicated to ignoring research on the benefits of removing automobiles from the core of urban spaces. Paris, New York, and the Netherlands are excellent examples we in Ontario could learn from as to the benefits of pedestrianizing our cityscapes. Cyclists require protected lanes to travel safely, and every cyclist is a car not on the streets, reducing gridlock by removing the geometric problems associated with the present oversupply of automobiles in urban space.

We should allow our municipalities and their local elected officials to govern their own traffic.