Hi, to be quite blunt, this…

Hi, to be quite blunt, this bill is awful and will not achieve the goal of reducing gridlock like it claims to do.

Those same folk who bike on bike lanes will just take the lane as a cyclist or a driver, maintaining gridlock issues or even exacerbating them. If you truly want to reduce gridlock, I suggest you keep bike lanes as people will have more options to get around than driving, actually reducing the number of cars on the road.

There is also the issue of safety. Bike lanes keep bikes away from cars and reduce and prevent potential collisions involving them. If you want a safer city, keep the bike lanes.

I've also heard that the Ford government is willing to pay municipalities to remove some of these bike lanes. This is inefficient spending that could have gone to solutions that actually reduce gridlock such as investing in public transit.

Overall, there is nothing progressive or conservative about this bill. It is regressive, irresponsible, and ineffective. This bill appears to be a selfish wish of Doug Ford in his attempt to control municipalities on what they can or cannot do to suit his vision of what Ontario should look like to him. I suggest the government DOES NOT pass this bill and in fact, never bring anything like this up ever again. Find better solutions to reduce gridlock instead of whatever this is.