I am NOT supportive of this…

I am NOT supportive of this new legislation. As a resident of Toronto, we sold our family's second car and now use a bike as our second family vehicle because of the biking routes and infrastructure now available in the city. We have put 5,500 km on our bicycle in 2 years, which would have been kms driven in the city and extra emissions for our air quality. We take our kids to school and the library on the bike, and get groceries with the bike. Global cases like Copenhagen, Paris, and Montreal show that biking infrastructure reduces congestion. A CBC report proves this empirically (see URL Link)

I am horrified that our government would spend time creating legislation that would limit biking infrastructure growth because active transportation will be essential to move the people around the GTA that we are expected to have in the coming years.

PLEASE focus on something more constructive, and please leave municipalities to plan their own infrastructure. Follow the successful programs from other regions around the world and please recognize the important role that bike lanes will play in reducing congestion and moving people around modern cities in the future.