Comment
The entire premise of this piece of legislation is backwards, and will hinder Ontario's development. As a global society, we have no choice but to build alternatives to automotive travel. There's no other way to put it. The resources required for individual car travel are completely unsustainable, from fuel, to manufacturing materials, to road maintenance. The sedentary, resource-intensive lifestyle that cars facilitate is bad for people, and impossible to continue to reproduce on our finite planet.
As a society, we WILL move beyond the automobile - it is inevitable and out of our control. What is in our control is whether we will have alternatives when this transition occurs. Building new highways and blocking construction of active transportation infrastructure is unconscionably stupid in 2024.
If we build safe infrastructure for people to get around on foot, on public transit, and by bicycle, people will use it. But we must build it first. This should be our #1 priority and guiding principle.
Overruling municipal authority is also antidemocratic and extremely cringe. Ford needs to get a life and realize it's 2024.
Submitted October 27, 2024 8:35 AM
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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 - Framework for bike lanes that require removal of a traffic lane.
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