Regarding bike lanes, this…

Regarding bike lanes, this is my understanding:

After spending a humongous amount of time and taxpayer money on planning so city officials can understand the needs and wants of their community as comprehensively as possible...

...all this is stopped and could be completely wasted...

...because drivers who probably don't even live in their community, got together and complained to their provincial elected officials, who also probably don't live there...

...because said drivers wanted to shave a few minutes off their drives and spend them scrolling Reddit instead, safety of residents/pedestrians who actually live there be damned...

...so our provincial elected officials can waste our taxpayer money on another level of bureaucracy...

...where our city officials will be forced to dumb down complicated urban planning, physics, health sciences, statistics, psychology, sociology, etc. to a level that our objectively unintelligent elected officials, who again, probably don't live in that community, could understand...

...and their decision boils down to if they can swallow their pride and ego and admit to themselves that no one else but the community is in a better position to make an informed decision for itself, and the science and data are clear as well, or...

...succumb to ego and selfishness.

This is not what is meant by "individual freedoms" and "small government", right?