The sections on Bloor St.,…

The sections on Bloor St., Yonge St., and University Ave. have provincial importance and function.

The management and maintenance of these streets, and others, cannot be left only to elected regional and municipal leaders in the communities they are in.

The straightforward solution is that these sections be made King's Highways.

Yonge St. was, until the late 90s, King's Highway 11. This could have provided the province a mandate to remove the bike lanes. Re-applying the King's Highway designation, and adding new ones across the province, will re-instate the mandate of the province over these important streets without resorting to politics.

Introducing this new contentious framework will take too long when the Hon. Prabmeet Singh and the bill's supporters have demonstrated through research, traffic studies, and hard work that removing these bike lanes will immediately resolve gridlock.

We have a framework ready to go. It is called a provincial highway and it is the way forward for the province on this issue, not this bill.