This bill is made in…

This bill is made in flagrant disregard for the wellbeing of Ontarians and the wishes of those who live here. The bill proposes loosening environmental standards for highway 413 construction to allow for faster construction of a highway we don't need. Construction of this highway will cause immense environmental damage to our precious green belt and lead to more development in the area. We already have a second highway to help reduce 401 traffic and building another one to connect to the 400 will only lead to more congestion in the long term. Another issue is municipal bike lanes. I have no idea why roadway decisions are any business of the provincial government. Adding more lanes does not make traffic better, it never has and never will. All it does is provide more incentive to drive. It is a DRAMATIC OVERSTEP of provincial power to tell cities what is good for their roads. The cities build and maintain them and the provincial government should have no say in what happens with them. What makes this worse are ideas of removing existing bike lanes. This will not reduce congestion. This will not make a certain unnamed Premiere of Ontario's commute to Queens Park shorter. It will only make roadways more dangerous for cyclists and waste taxpayer money on removing infrastructure that was just put in. These bike lanes are getting plenty of use every day, businesses in the annex BIA want the lanes to stay because it brings in more customers, they even warn that removal of the lanes could be disasterous. The majority of people who live or work anywhere near the bike lanes want them to stay. Please take into consideration the pleas of everyone who knows the damage our cities sprawl has caused damage to our lives and livelihoods. Ignoring the importance of our greenbelt for the sake of saving time and building more car infrastructure and destroying existing infrastructure that carries thousands of people everyday will do nothing but cause more damage to Toronto and the greater GTA.