Protected cycle tracks serve…

Protected cycle tracks serve as a critical piece of infrastructure for myself and many others. I for one use our current bike infrastructure in Toronto to support local businesses along with doing daily errands and going to appointments. The data shows that bike infrastructure improves the quality of life for our community, and we have to expand bike infrastructure to make our community even stronger!

I drive as well, and find that driving in car centric areas brings out the worst drivers even more as the wide roads enable dangerous driving. Anecdotally, traffic isn’t any better in places like Scarborough and North York (where mostly just car oriented infrastructure exist) compared to Old Toronto (which has more active transportation).

Bill 212 will not reduce traffic. The 401 is the widest freeway in Canada, while also being the most congested.

With this, I am speaking out against Bill 212 as it gets in the way of the positive economic, social, and environmental impacts bike lanes produce, with no guarantee of reducing traffic!