I support the highway…

I support the highway construction, but I am a little concerned about discarding the environment and municipal concerns to do so: the government should take care ensure that there is a process for people/entities to get their valid concerns addressed so that they (or the environment) are not unfairly impacted.

I also am failing to understand the need to override municipalities in terms of bike lane construction. They are the ones that have undertaken all the studies and have all the local knowledge and urban planning to know what the local needs are.

The job of the government is to facilitate movement of their citizens (especially in the goal of economic activity). Bicycle lanes along major corridors speeds up all traffic once a effective network is in place: especially where there are no good alternative routes such as the ones that appear to be targeted by this legislation: which is also confusing as it appears the real delays are from construction activities, not the removal of car lanes. And this is coming from someone who lives in a rural riding that regularly votes Conservative (and regularly do myself).