Climate change, caused and…

Climate change, caused and accelerated by Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, is threatening our lives, prosperity and future.

Transportation is the largest source of GHG emissions in Ontario, largely caused by cars and trucks. To reduce transportation emissions we need more transit and active transportation (walking and cycling).

To encourage more cycling we need safe, physically separated cycling infrastructure. We already see rising ridership, even though the cycling network in Toronto is incomplete as of yet.

Instead of trying to tell Toronto how to run the city, to score some cheap political points, your government should invest in municipalities to build more safe and physically separated bike-lanes. Such an investment by the Ontario Government would foster more active transportation that is emissions free, affordable, convenient, fast and healthy.

Please concentrate on your provincial work and ensure that you are build more public transit. For example, you could demand that the Eglington Crosstown has to be up and running in the 1st quarter of 2025. Or you could invest more money to electrify Go trains and thus further reduce GHG emissions from the transportation sector.

Destroying Toronto's investment into safe cycling infrastructure is not the answer, it is just wasting time and money, increasing Ontario's GHG emissions, and at the same time endangering the health and safety of Ontarians that decide to use a cheap, healthy, convenient and fast way to get around, a bike.