Moving away from sustainable…

Moving away from sustainable transportation strategy which actually promotes a cleaner, greener, happier and healthier City is totally unacceptable and appalling. As a tax payer, it is unacceptable for me to use tax money to rip out an infrastructure which should actually be more common.
Moving away from car based transportation should be a long term strategy for Ontario and Canada in general. Putting needs of cars ahead of people's need to move is wrong, and confusing car's speed with faster commuting is also a fallacy.
The contention that car is what people want so we should give it to them is also flawed- it should be government's responsibility to educate people towards a sustainable future. So if a sector of society wants car based transportation, they should be educated to the benefits of sustainable modes of transport. Secondly, if saying it is a democracy, so in that similar argument, would we give them something bad if they want something wrong- like drugs? No!
Big picture should be clear- make Ontario leader in sustainable transport, put tax money to good use.
Bikes, skating, walking, public transit reduces economic burden on weaker society sections, makes cities more livable, reduces urban heat island, reduces flooding and stormwater management costs, and keep the population happier and healthier.

Lastly, the fact that Province is proposing to bypass environmental legislation in so many large infrastructure projects undermine our trust in their capacity to provide us a clean sustainable future. There has been too much investment in public infrastructure, and very little in the manufacturing sector.