Comment 117887

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted April 25, 2016 at 12:25:49 in reply to Comment 117885

The Bay Street cycle lane was a priority project identified in the 2009 Cycling Master Plan that was approved by Council. Staff did not themselves suddenly decide that Bay Street would be part of the cycle plan, or that it would be a priority project. Council made that decision.

In other words, the project has been approved by Council and Council has allocated annual funding for cycling to help them implement the Plan!

Staff has been tasked by Council with implementing the projects in the Cycling Master Plan and should be able to use their professional judgement to determine the best sequencing to achieve that goal.

Applying for provincial funding is a perfectly reasonable and pro-active way of doing it. The fact that theirs was one of the successful projects is a testament to the soundness of their judgement.

What is the point of having Council-approved Master Plans which identify a subset of priority projects if each individual project is then subjected to Council votes and second-guessing? If additional funding is required, that needs to be approved by Council, but the projects themselves were already approved by Council seven years ago.

[Note that the LRT is also a council-approved project, with the condition that it is 100% provincial funded.]

Comment edited by kevlahan on 2016-04-25 12:34:11

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