This bill is absolutely ridiculous. First of all, adding more red tape and bureaucracy is useless to the Conservatives who should be pushing for smaller government interference, especially within CITIES.
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Local transportation is a matter for local governments to decide on as they understand the context best, have access to the most evidence, and are most responsive to local residents and their preferences.
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Why waste money digging up the bike lanes when you could hire more doctors or fix housing or do anything actually useful for Ontario citizens? They are already built and it is not slowing down traffic. More bike infrastructure will increase traffic on bikes and reduce traffic.
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The province needs to allow cities to decide what infrastructure is suitable for them.
The removal of existing bike lane infrastructure is just another waste of the taxpayers money and will not solve the gridlock problem.
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The best way to deal with automobile traffic is to offer viable alternatives. The worst way to deal with increasing automobile traffic is to increase the number of paved streets and lanes for automobiles.
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Please please please refer to the copious amounts of research that point to bike lanes helping EASE congestion! All around the world, world class cities like Paris, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tokyo
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Hi, I support bike lanes.
We know from evidence that bike lanes help to:
- reduce gridlock
- reduce greenhouse gases
- gets more people to move through the same amount of space
- supports local businesses
- encourages active living while promoting health and wellbeing
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We need bike lanes. Keep bike lanes. Make more bike infrastructure. It is the safe and responsible choice to make. As an employee of the federal government who bikes to work everyday, this is putting my personal safety in jeopardy if bike lanes get removed.
I understand having a review process for new ones going in, however, municpalities know their roads better than the province. Removing existing ones seems like an incredible waste of money and the additional construction would make traffic even worse.
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I do not support this proposal, as it adds unnecessary bureaucracy to infrastructure development, as well as wasting tax-payer money on removing important infrastructure that has already been built.
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As a Conservative supporter and resident of Guelph Ontario, I am very displeased and shocked the provincial government would dictate municipal planning on this level.
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The construction of these bike lanes has barely been completed and the province is proposing to tear out? This is a waste of money and without any data collection or statistics to justify this decision.
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This bill will kill people. For students, lower-income people, or people who simply want to have some exercise in our jam packed lives, we rely on this infrastructure to keep us safe. Without it, some of us will be injured and some will die.
Removing bike lanes is frankly insane - major Ontarian cities (Toronto and Ottawa in particular) have too many people to have them all move around by car.
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As an Ontario resident and someone who has been living here my whole life, I strongly oppose of this proposal. People commute on bikes for many different reasons, whether it be for the convenience, the affordability, the environment, and more.
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KEEP THE BIKE LANES!!!! Data shows that they reduce gridlock, rather than increase it. People who can’t bike safely will use their cars instead. It will lead to MORE cars on the road and more cycling deaths and injuries. I am sick and tired of this government picking away at public services.
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NO. Municipalities, the people and their elected leaders who actually LIVE and travel and work in the cities affected should be the ONLY people making the decisions about bike lanes. The provincial government should mind their own business.
I am writing to express my concern regarding the proposed changes outlined in Bill 212, particularly those that would prevent the installation of new bike lanes where motor vehicle lanes would have to be reduced.
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It deeply saddens me as someone who regularly commutes by bike to see the province erecting a barrier to the construction of future bike lanes.
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