As a resident of Toronto for…

As a resident of Toronto for most of my life, and someone who has lived and worked in a wide variety of areas in the city, from Etobicoke to Scarborough, to North York and East York, I really don't see the proposed idea as a smart idea from a fiscal/tax perspective, safety perspective, or congestion/traffic perspective. Paying money to take out bike infrastructure that saves lives and provides alternatives to driving (something that the provincial government should be doing and has done to an extent with transit investments) does not make much sense to me at all. Further, adding in bureaucracy that municipalities will have to deal with when looking at increasing mobility options for cities across Ontario will result in inefficiencies at both the municipal and provincial level, something this provincial government does not typically agree with. All this being said, I very much hope this framework does not get passed, bike lanes are kept, and we can continue to build safe streets across the province.