This Bill has been necessary…

This Bill has been necessary for a long time. Especially the portion pertaining to gridlock. The City of Toronto Transportation Department has been actively collaborating with the bike lobby (including and especially CycleTO) to give them advance notice of traffic studies — so they can pre-plan efforts to artificially inflate the numbers — as well as committee presentations — so they can stack the deputation list with people of their choosing. When the political process is being fundamentally undermined in this kind of coordinated way, it does require efforts like Bill 212 to bring back transparency and accountability to a fair, reasonable, and representative democratic process!