CollingwoodToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter was sent in response to Ontario Bill 212, which would force municipalities to get provincial approval for any bike lane that removes a lane of traffic.
It seems to me that with Bill 212, Doug Ford and the Conservatives are trying to distract us, by attempting to abuse provincial power to prevent municipalities from making their local streets safer.
In the meantime, they're making it easier for the province to take land from owners for highways that will cost billions (e.g., 413, Bradford bypass) and turn farmland and protected green space into more urban sprawl, with minimal environmental review.
Brett Plummer
Nottawa, Ont.
