This provincial government…

This provincial government is not acting in the interest of its citizenry, otherwise it would have long realized the absolute folly of its current plans for transporation in Toronto and the GTA.

The benefits of car-alternatave means of transport (transit and cycling) have been studied and published ad nauseam, as have the inevitable results of adding more space for cars - induced demand means all of those new highways and lanes will quickly fill with more vehicles, and you're back to attempting to solve the same problem all over again. In enacting legislation allowing the province to remove existing municipal bike lanes, pandering to a small, loud portion of your car-driving constituents, you will be helping no one, both prolonging and amplifying Toronto's existing traffic woes.

The financial wastefulness this action entails should be obvious, and yet somehow still needs to be pointed out. In a province where the healthcare and education systems are in shambles, and where the province has dileberately withheld funds earmarked for the former in order to try to garner people's votes via a rebate comprised of their own tax money, destroying existing projects that took considerable time and funds to implement is beyond asinine. Don't think that people outside of the GTA can't see that these petty and frivolous plans are depriving them of funding and services they and their families need and deserve.

I am also aware that the uproar created by the bike lane portion of this bill is a convenient means to distract from the other portion of it, which allows the removal of certain engineering assessments for the new highway 413. Continue on this trajectory and you will, like so many others, find yourself a victim of your own hubris.

All this to say, keep your hands off of Toronto's bike lanes - they're a vital and necessary part of the infrastructure in a rapidly growing and densifying city. Leave the cities to the cities.