IN SUPPORT OF MORE BIKE…

IN SUPPORT OF MORE BIKE LANES

A leader in this country that I admire above all others is Valerie Plante, the wildly popular and much loved Mayor of Montreal. She is a visionary, a leader, a role model and a person who listens to the people. She has boosted public transit, created sponge parks, increased the tree canopy, massively boosted bike lanes, greened the city with native plants in boulevards, closed streets to cars in front of schools. And she is beloved for all of it. And she didn't need to buy votes with bribes because she was elected on her policies. She crafts policy based on recommendations from advisors who are actually experts in their field, not just her wealthy friends or whoever texted her that morning. She is moving that City forward in a way that puts Toronto to shame. One reason she is successful is because her Provincial counterparts don't get in her way, they support her. Unlike here in Ontario where the ONPCs made multiple bad decisions based on zero research and then had to reverse them a few months later. Greenbelt, Bill 23 DC refunds, urban boundary expansions and now bike lane removals.

For the sake of the people in this tanking province PLEASE listen to the multitude of traffic experts who are telling you that adding MORE bike lanes and offering people choices on tranport other than cars is the way to get out of gridlock. Go to Europe and see how they get around with a train or LRT every 2 - 10 minutes. Scrap the highway expansions. Build MORE bike lanes. Build a TON of more public transit and make it free for everyone.

These are the progressive policies your government should espouse. Instead you are taking us back to 1950.