Edmonton has been one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. As well, it's one of the youngest cities in the country. In my lifetime—the last 38 years—it's more or less doubled in size.
As it has grown, we are starting to experience the traffic congestion of most cities approaching one million residents, and our metro population is now 1.4 million. The only way to get out ahead of that is not to widen roads, which just induces more traffic congestion, but to strategically get out ahead with rapid transit investment, and so—