If we, as residents, have…

If we, as residents, have elected a mayor or city councilor to represent our interests, and we want bike lanes in our neighborhood because we see them as necessary, and as the needed solution to address gridlock why should the province interfere? The province doesn’t necessarily understand the specific needs of our community when it comes to addressing traffic issues; our elected city councilor and mayor do. To address our local traffic issues, sometimes a road is needed, other times a bike lane is required, and at other times it is public transit . Often a measured combination of all three is necessary. We may already have one or more of these options, but we often need more of one in particular to effectively tackle the specific issue our neighbourhood is incountering. As members of thecommunity, we are better equipped than the province to understand which option is needed to meet our specific needs. Why undermine our democratically elected officials by preventing them from acting on the will of the people who elected them and actually tackling the transit issues of the community?