Environmental Impact: Building highways, especially projects like Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass, poses significant risks to Ontario's natural environment. These projects threaten green spaces, farmlands, wetlands, and habitats that are essential for biodiversity and climate resilience.
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This proposal provides for excessive government powers to appropriate lands and also infringes on landowners rights. The powers in this proposal are unnecessary, as are many of the projects which the proposal seeks to support. This proposal should be withdrawn.
Doing as much possible to get traffic moving effectively is important but more important to the long-term health of the city is doing as much as possible to get individual people out of their individual cars. Transit and bike lanes should be prioritized over motor vehicles.
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Bikes are good for the environment and offer a more sustainable and healthy mode of transportation for people in Ontario. We should take Montreal as an example and offer safe and accessible bike lanes.
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I am writing to express my family's vehement opposition to measures in this Bill that will impede the implementation of more bike lanes and, even more disappointingly, remove current bike lanes in the province.
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I am writing to express my family's vehement opposition to measures in this Bill that will impede the implementation of more bike lanes and, even more disappointingly, remove current bike lanes in the province.
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Although ongoing issues around transportation & urban mobility need addressing, the intended solution of removing and prohibiting further developments around Bike lanes creates a direct impact on road users that choose Bicycle as means of transportation.
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I have boys 4,6 and 8 years old. We enjoy riding down to the Bloor bike lanes to visit the bakeries, trading card shops and grocery stores on the weekends.
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The Ontario government should not be dictating what a city or municipality can do to it's roadways. Just because the premier happens to live in Toronto and doesn't like bike lanes does not mean he gets to dictate how the city uses them.
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Based on a plethora of scientific studies on urban planning, it's pretty clear that reducing bike lanes doesn't help traffic congestion. The only thing that works is reducing cars on the road through either better investment in public transport, bike lanes or other carbon reducing options.
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Study after study has proven that the best and most sensible way to reduce traffic is to increase the ways by which people can travel without using a car. It is cars that cause traffic problems. Allowing people to travel by bike takes cars off the road.
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As a driver, I am so thankful for bike lanes. They keep cyclists out of my lanes so I'm less worried about hitting them while driving, or people slightly merging into my lane to avoid cyclists.
Yes, construction sucks, but building condos reduces lanes for far longer than building a bike lane.
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I am sharing a submission of a friend of mine as I could not have written this better myself. I support the bike lanes and absolutely do not want to see them removed.
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This act eliminates many important environmental and social checks and balances that should be in place to prevent government overreach when it comes to infrastructure projects.
Building roads faster should not come at the expense of due process and proper democratic controls.
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I am writing to express my family's vehement opposition to measures in this Bill that will impede the implementation of more bike lanes and, even more disappointingly, remove current bike lanes in the province.
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This policy is absolutely ridiculous, and a huge waste of money. Bikes and transit can move so many more people than private vehicles. They are the answer to grid lock. Bike lanes keep people safe, I live in Hamilton and people are constantly doing 80km on the city arterial roads.
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As an Ontarian who bikes every day for her daily commute, I oppose this bill. Cycling provides an environmentally-friendly, economically accessible, and health-promoting alternative to motor transportation.
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Getting rid of bike lanes is a horrible idea. How is getting more cars on the road going to be better for congestion? Simple answer: it won't.
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This is not a good piece of legislation. Deliveries, cyclists, pedestrians, car commuters and public transit all need to share the road, and the best body of government to decide how to manage municipal roads is municipal legislators.
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