Overall, I think this bill…

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Overall, I think this bill is at best unproductive and here’s why:

1: six people have died in Toronto alone while cycling this year and that’s with the cycling lanes. I feel uncomfortable with the idea that my government is ignoring the fact that choosing to get rid of bike lanes to save time for drivers is fundamentally going to be at the expense of the lives of multiple cyclists. That is a problem to me.

2: This is (fiscally speaking) incredibly irresponsible on the part of the government. I noticed the bill includes in its provisions a mechanism to remove bike lanes on various streets. The issue I have with this is that most of those lanes were just added and removing them would be a massive waste of my tax dollars. I would vastly prefer if this money was put into making living in this already incredibly expensive province easier, rather than removing bike lanes we just spent millions of dollars installing and / or improving. Considering that this is an administration that prides itself on austerity, I find this a baffling decision.

3: I think this Bill is incredibly focused on one type of person, while ignoring many others. It is clear that people who live in Toronto’s suburbs want the bike lanes removed, and they are absolutely entitled to that opinion, but that is an issue when the people who actually surround the bike lanes and live near them want them there. I think that generally speaking, the people whose streets the bike lanes are on should get to decide whether there are bike lanes or not. The fact this is being taken out of their hands is incredibly troubling to me and feels like a very slippery slope.

It is for these reasons that I wholeheartedly hope this bill does not advance further, and is scrapped so as to take these points into account.

Thank you for reading my input.