I find it absolutely insane…

I find it absolutely insane that we are even having to discuss this for several reasons.

A) Why is the province involving itself with local municipal issues when we have so many larger, strucutral and systemic problems in this province?

B) In the midst of major environemntal changes, we are regeressing to removing infrastructure for the only truly green mobility option we have available to us?

C) Ontarians safety should be the #1 priority for the government, not the "movement of goods" or traffic.

D) Why would you want to take cyclists from separated bike lanes INTO traffic lanes? What do you think will happen? Cyclists won't use random side streets that the province may like just because the province wants them to.

E) The bureacuractic and financial strain this will put on municipalities due to having to rework their long term cycling plans, not to mention responding to the requests by the government for information on existing bike lanes - and future ones.

All of this utterly disappointing and ultimately tragic, as it will lead to unsafer communities and more death, all thanks to the meddling of the provincial government in a place that is (normally) outside of their scope of work. Shame on you for even proposing something like this!