Doug Ford is driving Ontario down the wrong road

The Globe and Mail Editorial Board quickly reached for the brakes on a couple of politically-driven wrong turns: legislation to prevent new bike lanes and a plan to build a 50-kilometre car and transit tunnel under the 401 highway.

Their editorial and subsequent Globe and Mail research clearly show that removing bike lanes and adding car lanes are not solutions to gridlock. Since the 1960s, the 401 has gone from four to 12 and even 18 lanes and is still a traffic grind. If you build it, they will drive it. In cities, “the problem is not the number of bikes on the road but (repeat after us, Mr. Ford) the number of cars.”

Making cycling more accessible and investing in public transit would move far more people across a busy city like Toronto, not to mention the benefits of improved safety and less pollution. Instead, Doug Ford’s “lone answer to Toronto gridlock is to build more grids to lock.”

Mr. Ford is known to change course when he realizes the politics are not in his favour. Let him know where you stand by amplifying this response to his politically-motivated “wrong roads.”