Hi, I completely disagree…

Hi,

I completely disagree with the purpose and intent of this bill. We should NOT be reducing bike lanes but instead creating more of them. Many people believe that Netherlands’ has always been a bike friendly country, they were not. In the early 1970’s they were a car heavy culture like Canada, but through a significant policy shift they found away to dramatically increase bike trips and become one of the leading bike friendly countries in the world with all of the benefits. This bill is doing the opposite and taking us backwards. I also have 2 specific issues with this bill:
1. Reducing bike lanes will only temporarily reduce car congestion. 100 years of cars has proven that more roads only creates more cars. We will never escape car congestion by creating more roads or lanes. It’s time to re-think this issue.
2. I find it ironic that the Provincial government is ok with meddling in municipal affairs in terms of overridden a municipalities decision with how to integrate biking but would be outraged if the Federal government meddled in a Province government’s area of responsibility. If you want the Federal government to respect your jurisdiction, you need to respect municipalities jurisdictions.