This Bill is absolutely…

This Bill is absolutely ridiculous and is a blatant example of Goverment overreach. It is trying to sidestep municipality's wants and needs and make decisions on their behalf without their input.

The Provincial Government should not be able to expropriate your property without explicit permission and compensation for doing so. Basically this Bill would allow the Provincial Government to take the land you paid for and own and dig it up to install infrastructure or pave it over to build a highway, and you would have no say.

Additionally, the 413 should not be exempt from environmental impact assessments. It should have to go through the same assessments as everything else. Where the environment is in the forefront of many people's minds, this should not be a corner that we cut.

Finally, in regards to the "main talking point" of this Bill, bike lanes. It does not make any logical sense to remove bike lanes that are already in place. Replacing the bike lane with a lane of traffic will effectively not change a thing. The bikes are not going to go anywhere. If the bike lanes are turned into traffic lanes, that just means the cyclists will being riding in that traffic lane and holding it up. It is also a complete waste of tax payers' dollars to revert infrastructure that was already put in place.

If the purpose of this Bill is to "reduce gridlock" why is it not looking into alternatives forms of transport that can transport mass amounts of people (i.e. busses and railways)? This Bill does not seem to achieve the purpose of its conception, unless that purpose was endangering cyclists and wasting Ontarion tax dollars.