As a city resident, I…

As a city resident, I believe our communities should be designed to support more active modes of transportation like biking and walking. This piece of legislation makes it unsafe for thousands of bikers who use these roads to commute to work and school everyday. All across the world, governments are looking to reduce their environmental footprint but the Ford administration is pushing people into being more dependent on cars. Who are these policies profiting? Not the people, not our communities, not our environment. Oil is an expensive and increasingly scare commodity, and our current oil and petroleum consumption will have to be reduced significantly in the next decade. Using cars is not a financially or environmentally sustainable mode of transportation. This legislation is pushing us to use more petrol and diesel, that the same governments will not be able to provide affordably in the next few years. It is shortsighted and results in a bad precedence for future bike lane constructions across the province. I oppose it in its entirety, and urge the government to put forward policies that promote healthy communities and lifestyles.