Bill 212 ignores the…

Bill 212 ignores the fundamental issue that the majority of people in Toronto / GTA do not have sufficient means to get to and from work across the city. Providing another car lane does not solve the needs of thousands of lives. It provides the privileged few (with cars) more access to more lanes. Bikers will continue to bike because it is the most effective way to get anywhere in this terribly planned city. Bikers are not the problem. This bill encourages the mentality that cars are more important than anyone else in the built environment, when in reality it is the pedestrian. Over the last 5 decades cities in Scandinavia, the UK, the USA, and Mexico, to name a few, have realized this mentality is backwards and detrimental to the lives of their inhabitants. They have committed to prioritizing a new framework for transit, one that increases health, community life and mental health. This long term vision is needed here, to create a place that is a refuge instead of a sterile dumpster. If this Bill is approved there will be an increase of death amongst bikers, and it will be because a government has encouraged their death, and nothing else.