It is ridiculous that the…

It is ridiculous that the province is even considering this bill. There is no justification for:
- Adding additional red tape to cities who should be spending their time and effort addressing the housing crisis
- Interfering with and micromanaging local city governments to this degree, and overruling the small-scale transportation decisions they are making on behalf of their constituents, whose needs and desires those local politicians are much closer to than the Premiere is
- Wasting public money to rip up and repave valuable infrastructure, which is already in place and saving the lives of cyclists
- Making life MORE difficult for drivers, by putting delivery cyclists and other bikes back into the flow of automotive traffic, which dramatically increases the risk of accidents for riders and drivers alike

Adding more lanes for cars will not actually ease traffic (most city planners could explain the concept of induced demand for you), but tearing out key protected bike lanes from downtown Toronto will cripple the slowly building integrated bike-lane network which, over time, will actually reduce traffic by taking more cars off the road - the safer and more connected the bike lane network becomes, the more people will have the confidence to take advantage of it, making fewer car trips, and leaving more room for the remaining drivers. Case studies on European cities improving their cycling infrastructure show this.

Thank you, from an Ontario resident, homeowner and taxpayer.