As a person who commutes…

As a person who commutes into downtown Toronto from Mississauga, I don't believe removing bike lanes and building more highways will help congestion. The city is too populated for car routes to ever be the main source of transportation. Even if you were able to meaningfully expand main traffic routes to be able to handle more cars, it would just lead to more people using those routes instead of non car alternatives, thus increasing traffic congestion up to the same point we had before.

Additionally, I fundamentally disagree with this bill including so many different policy changes. Bike lanes are a completely different issue than waiving environmental regulations on the other construction projects currently underway. Even if I saw string data and research that supports the benefits of removing bike lanes, I'd still disagree with waiving environmental regulations for the new highways.

In general, please be more data driven in your approach and communication around policy changes. It's very hard to properly assess these policies when there is no data to back up the changes. If that data exists, please make it more accessible to the public. I'd be happy to be proven wrong with my current beliefs on the solutions for gridlock, but we need measured and thoughtful debates driven by data and the opinions of industry experts.