This proposal is the…

This proposal is the complete opposite of how cities and provinces should be developing their infrastructure, both for quality of life reasons and for the environment. We need more public transport and bike lanes and less cars. Already North America is too car dependent, polluting, causing accidents and death, social isolation, and physical deterioration due to lack of exercise. This approach of stripping municipalities of the right to even improve themselves in favor of the provinces backwards and car-centric plans is cruel to all Ontarians.

More specifically:
1. The plan threatens the safety and well-being of cyclists, which should be encouraged and protected in protected bike lanes. This will actually improve health, happiness, safety, and decrease traffic, unlike the failed plan of constantly adding more car lanes.
2. This promotes car dependency by inducing demand, which will increase congestion, emissions, and issues with road safety.
3. This promotes an unhealthy and sedentary lifestyle by stripping Ontarians of the choice of an active mode of transportation.
4. This wastes taxpayer money by creating unnecessary beaureaucracy and inefficiency in a province where transportation projects already take far too long to complete.
5. No criteria were outlined for the Province to use to approve bike lanes (they say they will develop them later with muncipalities) and so until further details are provided this legislation should not be pushed through to promote the Premier's pro-motorist agenda

North America has been under the control of car companies for too long. Everywhere else in the world has better public transportation, better bike lanes, and better walkability than us. If we care about the health, safety, and quality of life of our citizens, as well as the environment, we need to do the complete opposite of what this out-dated bill is attempting to do.