Hello, I live near London,…

Hello, I live near London, ON but I used to live in Mississauga, ON for 20 years and I am deeply upset with this proposal. This shows a clear lack of understanding of how traffic works and is out of touch with what the province I have lived in for my whole life needs. Ontario does NOT need more highways, lanes and cars. If you add more lanes or roads, you increase traffic, it's known as induced demand, it's common sense everywhere in the world except for North America. What makes you think that if you remove alternatives to driving, like Bike lanes and transit, that you'll reduce car traffic? If you give people alternatives to driving, they will drive less and you will have less cars on the road, speeding up traffic for those who need to be on the road like emergency services, delivery drivers (But even they can use E-bikes for within-neighborhood deliveries) and those who need the roads for work like tradesmen. Every time I look at the Ford Government wanting to spend an extra billion here and there for a wider 401 or a new 413, it just makes me think of what that money could have gone to, like healthcare funding, better GO Transit service, new transit programs across the province, new Ontario Northland train services or subsidized VIA Rail services to Sault Ste Marie who desperately needs rail connections to the rest of the province. The international community is admiring Toronto's efforts to increase it's transit network and it's cycling network, and it pisses me off to no end that you would want to stop that, cause guess what, the international community looks at you as a pillar of car-centric, car-dependent policies that have been plaguing North American since WWII. You wanting to rip out bike lanes and force those cycling onto "Side streets" shows that you have literally never cycled in Toronto or any city before and are therefore unfit to ever speak on bike lanes again, also, leave it up to the cities those streets and lanes belong to. Conservatives are supposed to be about smaller government, well here you are, trying to control what cities can and can't do with their own streets. I will NEVER vote for you and I want you out of office because you are running my province into the ground with your childish and ill-advised transportation ideals, Mr. Ford