Bill 212 would be an…

Bill 212 would be an overreach by the Government of Ontario, and it would stifle the ability of municipal governments to build out much-needed bike infrastructure in their cities. Increased bike infrastructure can induce a greater amount of bike usage in a city, which in turn leads to less cars on the road and fewer emissions. In my opinion, a more appropriate strategy for "reducing gridlock" and "saving you time" is to increase investment in forms of transportation such as bikes and transit, which will take cars off of the road.

Municipal governments are better equipped to make informed decisions on the specifics of where bike lanes do and don't belong, and adding the provincial government to this process will unnecessarily consume further resources from both levels of government. This waste of resources is exemplified by Bill 212's requirement to remove sections of bike lanes already built in the city of Toronto. The cost of these removals, along with the additional resources that will need to be spent by both governments to determine the particularities of the removal, are a wasteful drain of the city's and province's budgets.

For these reasons, it is my opinion that Bill 212 should not be passed.