Reducing the need for car…

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Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safety. Yet your divisive government continues to take this province back to the 1950's. While other major cities in the world see how unhealthy car culture is and promote and implement progressive ideas to get their population moving, allowing cities to thrive as safe, livable and healthy spaces for non-drivers (improved transit, congestion charges, emissions controls by limiting vehicles in city cores to improve air quality, pedestrianized areas to bring people out and help the local economy thrive, connected cycling networks for commuters and for those wanting to exercise, reduced (or removed) parking on major streets to allow more people to walk and cycle safely), your government is all about the car. With record numbers of cyclist and pedestrian deaths, the blood is on your hands. More cars equal a less livable city. Look longterm instead of trying to win votes in the short term. A healthy vibrant city does not exist when people are taking their lives in their hands when cycling and walking in their own neighborhoods, choking on emissions, while drivers become more unhealthy and obese by driving everywhere.