A child on a bike with training wheels rides with his mom on Beechwood Avenue in Ottawa, December 2024. He is learning to have an active lifestyle, helping to protect the environment, and more likely to become a lifelong cyclist because he is safe.
Bike Ottawa presentation to the committee studying Bill 212
Bike Ottawa presented the following as our deputation to the Ontario Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy.
Bill 212 (The Bill to Remove Bike Lanes, Promote Government Overreach Into Municipal Affairs, Waste Money, and Make Our Streets Less Safe)
From the government’s draft legislation and framework, Bill 212 would enable provincial approval for new bike lanes on municipal roads requiring removal of a traffic lane and for existing ones, where a traffic lane was removed.
Sharing Bike Ottawa’s concerns about proposed provincial bike lane legislation
Bike Ottawa has been speaking out about the legislation that we anticipate will be tabled next week. Here are links to some of the interviews we have done.