As a young person living in…

As a young person living in Toronto, it is disheartening to see regressive legislature even being talked about. I want to live in a city where we have the choice to use what mode of transport to use, and not to be forced to drive. Our city and province has underfunded transit expansion for decades and our poor city planning has resulted in people having to use a car to fulfill basic needs like shopping for groceries and seeing a doctor. Our government policy has forced a car-centric mindset upon us resulting in only a small adoption of people who use public transit or bike. The bike lane infrastructure was built and paid for, only for us to waste our money to rip them back up again. It's also like we have chose to ignore the phrase "induced demand", from both sides of the argument.

To reiterate, as someone in their twenties, seeing retirees make regressive decisions about our long term future makes me unhappy, and I want to see a city and world where everyone can make these decisions for themselves and not be forced upon a 50 year old way of thinking.