I believe a proposal to re…

I believe a proposal to re-acquire Highway 407 would be more suitable to remediating passenger vehicle traffic congestion in the short-to-medium term through Southern Ontario. This would allow for work to to better develop active transportation and public transit solutions to traffic with a long term emphasis. People driving automobiles on its' own is not necessarily a bad thing - but in high density population centers and there is a point where there are simply too many cars to handle the volumes of traffic using these roads (particularly in Toronto). Removing pedestrian/cycling/transit infrastructure would take away some of the features that allow cities to thrive. Additionally, the removal of said existing infrastructure to re-develop more car lanes is short sighted. The issue will come back for residents to deal with once more |(due to induced demane), and proceeding this way would be short-sighted at best (as well as unnecessarily destructive).

I also believe the development of a hew highway 413 would be highly counterproductive to long term environmental conservation and pollution reduction efforts. We should be looking to develop higher modes of transportation within and between Ontario cities, including getting the Eglinton Crosstown LRT system working once and for all.

Based on the above I state my opposition to this bill. Thank you.