To whom it may concern, I…

To whom it may concern,

I live in Waterloo Region, and my municipality has spent the last decade (and more) carefully planning investments in both transit and active transportation to create a city that people want to live in, as evidenced by it being the percentage-wise second-fastest growing CMA in 2023. It would be a huge detriment to our regional planning and growth to put more bureaucracy in-between the region and its implementation of the official plan that has been working quite well over the last decade.

Please abandon this proposal. Here in KW we can see the transit/active transportation strategy starting to work, and starting to reduce congestion by keeping cars off the road. It is very important that we let the strategy play out. Managing congestion as our population grows will be more about giving people reasonable alternatives to cars, and sometimes that requires tradeoffs against car lanes, but our region is doing an excellent job managing those tradeoffs now, and they should be allowed to continue unabated.