This bill is a prime example…

This bill is a prime example of provincial overreach into municipal affairs and demonstrates that the Ford government would rather push outdated car-centric dogma instead of listening to urban planners. For a government that claims to be fiscally responsible, they fail to admit that car-centric urban planning has proven with countless examples to be financially unsustainable.

I travel by car more than half the time and welcome bike lanes. Keeping cars, bikes, and pedestrians all separated from each other is safe and inherently more efficient. Removing bike lanes on major arteries would force cyclists either back into cars or have them cycling in the same lane as cars. Neither of those scenarios would improve the flow of traffic.

If the Ford government is actually concerned with keeping traffic moving, their attention should be on eliminating street parking on high traffic roads rather than removing safe infrastructure that actually moves people.

It is clear that the Ford government does not seriously intend to improve mobility. They have failed to deliver viable transit infrastructure, and instead of taking accountability, they would rather waste tax dollars to rip up other governments' successful projects.