Doug Ford spending your money to rip out Toronto bike lanes

November 18, 2024

QUEEN'S PARK — Ontario Greens Deputy Leader and MPP for Kitchener Centre Aislinn Clancy released the following statement in response to reports that the cost to remove Toronto bike lanes will be at least $48 million.

“How is it that this government can’t build homes or deliver a functioning healthcare system, but they seem to have limitless resources to rip out bike lanes in downtown Toronto?

This is not an appropriate use of taxpayer money. People who live in Huntsville, Sarnia, Kitchener, Thunder Bay – this is their money being used to tear out bike lanes in downtown Toronto.

If we want to solve our traffic problems, we need to give people more affordable choices in how they get around – like the choice to bike, walk or take public transit instead of being stuck in gridlock for hours on end.

This government clearly doesn’t have a plan – and Ontarians are the ones paying for it.”

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