As someone who moves…

As someone who moves throughout the province and the Greater Toronto Area on foot, bicycle, public transit, and private vehicle, I am 100% opposed to this completely asinine piece of legislation.

Bike lanes save lives, improve quality of life, lead to better health outcomes, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and most importantly, REDUCE traffic congestion. Please pay attention to the studies that have been done on this matter - any traffic engineer will tell you that getting Ontario moving requires getting people OUT of their cars.

This is a simple physics problem. You cannot legislate the laws of physics away - a reduction in bike lanes will result in more people driving, which will result in increased traffic congestion as any space that would have been freed up will quickly fill with cars sitting in traffic and not moving. If you do not understand this, I urge you to speak to any traffic engineer or read any study on induced demand.

Furthermore, your plan to remove existing bike lanes is woefully misguided, spiteful, and a colossal waste of money. If nothing else, you must understand that removing existing bicycle infrastructure is stupendously irresponsible from a purely fiscal point of view.

The government of Ontario is not the government of Toronto. STAY IN YOUR LANE.

To conclude, I urge you with every fiber of my being to abandon this idiotic bill.

Sincerely,
Ontario resident