Removal of existing bike lanes is a gross overstep of provincial authority.
It needs to remain under the purview of the city/local planning and the City is the best suited to handle this.
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Friends and Families for Safe Streets is a group whose loved ones were struck and killed by a motorist, and people who survived being struck with severe life-altering injuries. We are unwilling experts on the human toll exacted by dangerous road design, and car-centric laws and public policy.
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The study (attached) by the Belgian institution Transport & Mobility Leuven found that if only 10% of cars on the roads got replaced by motorcycles, time stuck in traffic would decrease by a whopping 40%.
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Hello. I am a young adult resident of a small town in the Durham Brock region, Beaverton. I regularly cycle to work in my home town, but also commute weekly to Oshawa for my university education.
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I'm appalled that the government is planning to give itself the power to remove bike lanes that have already been planned, built and paid for by local municipalities, ostensibly to provide the most trivial reductions in driver travel time.
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My first issue with Bill 212 is the exemptions being planned for Highway 413, specifically that it will be exempt from the Environmental Assessment Act. The impact of building this highway and further encouraging driving will have grave effects on the environment.
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The proposed Bill 212 could be pretty harmful to our infrastructure and city planning. Ford wants to get rid of bike lanes on major roads in Toronto, add more lanes, and even build a highway through sensitive natural areas—all while stepping on property rights for broadband and highway expansion.
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Removing bike lanes would not ease congestion. Adding more car lanes never ends up easing congestion over an extended period. The only way to solve congestion is to encourage active and public transportation.
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Bill 212: Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024
The purpose of this legislation is to reduce gridlock and save time for drivers in Ontario.
These comments focus on Part XII, which requires Government of Ontario approval/review of:
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While Bill 212 is well intended, it will neither meaningfully reduce gridlock or traffic congestion, and will damage our environment. It must not be passed.
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As a Peterborough resident, I am deeply concerned about the implications of Bill 212, particularly its potential to reverse the progress our city has made in creating safer and more inclusive streets.
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I am writing today to indicate my strong opposition to Bill 212, not with my opinion but with data and evidence. I want Ontario to move faster, and I strongly support efforts to reduce gridlock.
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I think that building Hwy 413 would be a travesty. It would undoubtedly threaten some of Ontario’s most fertile land, and as far as I can see, it would do so needlessly.
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Schedule 4, 195.2 (1) adds bureaucracy by requiring all municipalities to seek permission to install bike lanes on whatever roads could be designated as a "highway" by the Minister, and subsection 4 increases the risk of collisions at community or on local roads.
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Incentivizing cycling is one element of several that should be taken to reduce the existing gridlock in our cities by reducing the number of vehicles on them.
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