Due process, including…

Due process, including environmental assessments, exists for a reason. Not even the government is exempt from following due process. Skipping important steps to give the appearance of urgency for building a new highway, after years of neglecting existing infrastructure like the crumbling Gardiner, is shoddy workmanship at best.
Further, building new highways to accommodate more traffic is like putting out more buckets to fix a leaky roof. Neither actually addresses the root cause. In fact, more lanes and more highways consistently lead to *more* traffic and more congestion, rather than easing it. Similarly, requiring the removal of cycling lanes also will not fix traffic congestion - it will probably also make it worse.
Albert Einstein said that we can’t solve our problems with the same kind of thinking that created them. We need new solutions, not more of the same.