Below you will find my…

Below you will find my comments related to Bill 212. I strongly oppose the recommendations in the proposal as set out below.

Bike lanes:

How can you propose legislation on bike lanes without better defining the criteria under which prescribed municipalities will be held to account – this is opaque and leaves no accountability to the government.

As the government of Ontario, stay out of municipal matters – you have bigger issues to deal with like health care. Ford did not get elected mayor of Toronto, so he should stop meddling as if he did.

Bike lanes provide safety and a physical gap between motor vehicles and cyclists. They are literally saving lives. If you don’t allow municipalities to build bike lanes where they feel is best, you will have blood on your hands. There is no reason to divert bike lanes to side streets - Bikes have equal right to any other vehicle to take the shortest, most expedient path of least resistance to their destination.

How much tax payer money are you going to waste this time in removing lanes that have already had tax payer money to install them. Let’s have a bit of common sense here!

Based on your opposition to Bike lanes, why not start by improving any of the following issues that would improve traffic:

Remove street parking

Remove construction taking up a full lane of traffic

Improve and actually complete public transit projects on time (ahem, Metrolinx)

Improve traffic light timing

Highways:

I am vehemently opposed to the need for highway 413, and even more so opposed to the proposal in Schedule 3 of this proposal to exempt the Environmental Assessment Act in relation to all activities associated with the proposed development of highway 413. The Ontario PC’s have done enough damage as is and gone against their election promises related to intrusion into the Greenbelt - this is just another example of that same approach. I look forward to the RCMP investigation into the matter.