I am a driver, walker, transit rider and cyclist. I use the method that is safest and most efficient in the situation. My primary consideration is getting from one location to another, not to advocate for a single travel modality.
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As a regular bike commuter in the province, I strongly disagree with this proposal to allow the Government to remove bike lanes as they so choose.
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I am disappointed that a government that is supposed to value permitting the local people to decide what's best in their own community, is overextending to blanket ban us from deciding what's best for our neighbourhoods.
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I am writing to express my strong opposition to the Ontario government's recent bill that would allow the province to ban and remove bike lanes, and we urge you to vote against this misguided legislation.
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I am a resident of Toronto who is strongly opposed to the proposed Bill 212. I urge Premier Ford and the MPPs not to pass this act which will, contrary to its stated goals, be a massive waste of money and cause even worse traffic in some of Toronto's main thoroughfares.
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This is a regressive bill that proposes unproven strategies which recklessly endanger Ontario's wetlands and ecological health, farmland and food security and citizenry and public health. Projections do not anticipate any material benefit (i.e.
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I am writing to outline my concerns with multiple aspects of Bill 212, primarily Schedule 3 but also Schedule 2 and Schedule 4.
Schedule 3 focuses on Highway 413 and beginning early works before the environmental assessment has
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Removing bike lanes will not reduce traffic it will only put bikers in harms way. The bikers aren’t going anywhere especially those who do food deliveries. Putting bikers back on the roads with cars or forcing them onto the sidewalks with pedestrians is dangerous for everyone.
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The province is attempting to overstep into municipal issues with this bill as bike lanes are firmly a municipal issue.
Bike lanes are largely successful and beloved by residents across the city, as they provide safe alternative transportation which our city desperately needs.
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Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock, Saving you time act, 2024.
Benefits to Cycling:
Individuals who cycle are healthier and reduce costs to health care.
Students who cycle are more active in school.
Cycling reduces emissions.
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Keep the bike lanes! There is almost no factual support that taking away bike lanes reduces congestion whose primary cause is car traffic and roadworks. From Montreal, London, Paris we have learned that. Please don’t reduce health and quality of life by politicizing good urban planning.
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This bill, specifically removing bike lanes from Toronto, is a waste of taxpayer money, and data and evidence shows won't solve congestion.
If we want to solve congestion we should be investing in alternate forms of transport, like bike lanes and public transit.
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Ask any transport planner, city planner, or engineer, not only will Bill 212 cause incredible violence on vulnerable and racialized citizens, it will INCREASE gridlock.
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Building Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass would have serious environmental impacts that should preclude their going ahead. Neither project has provided for completion of a full environmental assessment which should be a prerequisite for projects of this magnitude.
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This is a joke of a policy proposal in so many respects. Not only is the government willfully ignoring the existing evidence and the democratic will of Toronto council, it is also doing so at the taxpayer's expense. This is supposed to be the fiscally responsible government?
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I'm responding to ERO 019-9265, Building Highways Faster Act , 2024, but Bill 212 includes all kinds of disparate pieces that trouble me, like providing an exemption from the Environmental Assessment Act for Highway 413, and other measures to remove typical checks and balances on a project that will
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As a decades long Toronto citizen, I've never felt safer with separated bike lanes.
Modern cities with competently designed infrastructure understand that prioritizing cars on roads does not reduce gridlock.
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The world doesn’t need more highways packed with cars holding just one person. We need more infrastructure focused on clean, energy-efficient transportation that brings people into the city quickly, conveniently & without excessive waste.
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