On Tuesday, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard unveiled a long-term sustainable mobility plan. The Highway 19 extension project would connect Highway 440 in Laval with Bois-des-Filion. Their concerns are backed up by what planners refer to as the "fundamental law of highway congestion," a concept first explored by U.S. economist and transportation researcher Anthony Downs in 1962. Yet whatever the rationale is behind the Liberals' decision, the Laval highway extension is one of those infrastructure projects that is oft-promised, but quickly forgotten. "There's is still a chance for the government to study its own mobility plan.

Source: CBC News April 22, 2018 07:52 UTC