I believe this bill is a…

I believe this bill is a massive overreach of provincial jurisdiction. Doug Ford and the provincial government should be far more concerned about building housing (don’t think that we didn’t see that the provincial government missed its target of 1.5M homes built), fixing the healthcare system instead of crippling it, and on actually improving infrastructure for rural and northern communities. Instead of antagonizing a city that desperately needs actual evidence based ways to improve congestion — which time and time again research has shown is improving bicycle infrastructure and more robust public transit options.

Bike lanes are not only better for traffic by providing people with alternate modes of transportation, they also take cyclists out of dangerous situations. This will just put more people in harms way. We cannot have a thriving, vibrant city if we do not move away from being so car centric.

Finally, the most confounding part of this legislation is that the conservative government is proposing using additional taxpayer dollars to remove infrastructure that we have already paid for to put in. University Ave’s bike lanes were literally just completed and now we are talking about taking them out? That is such a massive waste of taxpayer money and it is setting us back as a city. As a taxpayer living in Toronto, I am incredibly upset by this. We cannot have local infrastructure and city planning policies interfered by MPs who don’t even live within the city.