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Bill 212 is completely illogical.
It will waste excessive amounts of money. Both by undoing projects that municipalities (the people who actually live in the area) already decided they wanted, and by needlessly increasing the bureaucracy and paperwork required to complete new bike lane projects.
It will put millions of bikers across the province including myself and my friends and family at a greater safety risk; forcing more situations where bikers have to take the entire traffic lane for their own safety (and therefore not reducing vehicle traffic congestion).
Discouraging biking will also reduce citizen's physical fitness and quality of life, be bad for businesses along bike lane routes, and be bad for the environment (and traffic congestion), when the people that can afford to do so switch to driving to work along those same congested roads.
Speaking of the environment and citizen impacts, the shortcuts introduced by the Building Highways Faster Act and the Highway 413 Act are also quite concerning. There is a reason "red tape" exists - to protect people and the environment. It would be a sad day for our province if those protections could just be bypassed
Submitted November 2, 2024 10:33 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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