Bike lanes: 13 Ottawa councillors sign petition calling Ontario to scrap plan to restrict bike lanes [Video]

Thirteen Ottawa councillors have launched an online petition calling on Premier Doug Ford to hit the brakes on legislation that would restrict where bike lanes can be built in Ontario.

The Ontario government introduced legislation earlier this month that will require municipalities to receive provincial approval before removing traffic lanes to install new bike lanes.  Ford says Ontario will also look at removing and replacing “existing bike lanes on primary roads that are bringing traffic in our cities to an absolute standstill.”

An open letter on Somerset Coun. Ariel Troster’s website asks people to “stand up for cycling infrastructure in Ontario.”  Troster says the Ontario government’s new legislation on bike lanes would “put almost all of the projects in the City’s Active Transportation Master Plan at risk.”

“This legislation undermines good transportation planning, and we are concerned it will make it more difficult to build bike infrastructure that can reduce the number of deaths and catastrophic injuries on our …