The Ontario government would…

The Ontario government would be up in arms if the federal government encroached on affairs under the purview of the province, but has no problem doing the same to municipalities, undermining the years of expertise municipal government workers have brought to designing cycling infrastructure.

Urban centres around the world have come to understand that, with increasing populations, cars can't be the primary mode of transportation for its citizens and that transportation infrastructure needs to be multi-modal. Every drives that chooses a bicycle over a car reduces gridlock, and that choice is based on having safe and efficient biking infrastructure. The argument that cyclists can be shifted to secondary roads shows the provincial government's ignorance of the expert municipal advice that has already considered all options and built cycling infrastructure accordingly.

Unfortunately, I think most know that the provincial government hasn't made municipal cycling infrastructure a suddenly critical issue based on facts but rather a communications strategy to draw attention away from the Greenbelt scandal, the destruction and selling off of Ontario place to private corporate interests, the failure of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, etc.

We need a government that stays in its lane and makes decisions based on facts and expertise. Unfortunately, we don't have that in this government.