The existing Ontario…

The existing Ontario government's, and Conservative Party's, core value claims to be the removal of red tape and small government. There is an entire Minister for this role. Yet, this Bill 212 propsal is going against that value completely. The province needs to remain focused on activities within their jurisdiction, not interfering with municipalitiy's decision making.
This Bill is going to grind progress to a hault for city street safety. Municipalities do not make decisions around bike lanes lightly. They go through due diligence to obtain public opinion from the communities that these changes impact. Ultimately, it's the municipal's communities that serve to benefit from this process. Its the city's community members that provide input into their day-to-day spaces. External opinions from commuters shouldn't play a *more* significant role yhan those who live in that space.
The Provincial Conservative's cannot knowingly make decisions that benefit these communities with this Bill, unless that is, that the Province intends to duplicate the effort already spent by the municipality to do this discovery and analysis work and duplicate the tax dollars spent (paid by other Provincial ridings that aren't even impacted by this spending!). Further, if the province's decision results in bike lane removal, this is just going to increase commute times further with construction, increase spending by undoing recent comstruction work, remove road safety for non-car users, and remove any chance for long-term analysis to be done on the usage and the benefits of the bike lanes.

This Bill does not benefit the Province of Ontario. Rather it is using our tax dollars to intervene in large city's own decisions. It creates more red tape and bureaucracy, which goes against your party's claimed values. And it doesn't truly consider the communities that are ultimately impacted by bike lane and city infrastructure. It instead focuses on possible inconveniences for commuters.