This legislation is baffling…

This legislation is baffling and dangerous. First, it's baffling legislation because it'll force cities to waste absurd amounts of money on tearing up bike lanes for no good reason, and because it'll add an extra, totally unnecessary layer of red tape. Secondly, it's dangerous because getting rid of these bike lanes WILL lead to cyclists being injured and killed unnecessarily, AND it will increase the number of car collisions both fatal and otherwise due to forcing more cyclists to drive.

And the worst part? Schedule 2 of the bill, which both revokes the rights of Ontarians to challenge expropriation of their property if it's along the proposed route of highway 413, AND exempts it from environmental impact assessments. To be blunt, this part of the bill is madness. There's no good reason to be that cruel to people who own land along the proposed route of the highway, and exempting it from the environmental impact assessment could have potentially deadly consequences down the line by hiding potential dangers of the highway until it's too late.