I have two answers for you.
First, I would say “great job”. We really need a management plan, which I still say must be a rotational plan.
Our highway infrastructures are in particular need of maintenance. We know that, after 10 or 12 years, the pavement must be changed and the road bed must be excavated once more. Asphalt pavement has to be redone according to the volume of traffic using it. Our engineers are able to calculate that. That's why the plan is rotational.
Once that is in place, you can tell the residents exactly when the work will be done on their streets. That does not vary by one year or several years. You know when the work has to be done again, because it keeps recurring. In a lot of places at the moment, work that has to be done every 10 or 12 years is being done every 30 years.
Your second question was about how to make the infrastructure greener. We know a lot about that here. We do it with our parking lots and in the way we protect them, but we could easily do it with our roads as well. To build roads, you have to excavate the road bed for several kilometres, and at double width, because they have two sides. Given that type of construction and what is called the lower third method, we are able to excavate them and protect them at the same time. So it's not just a question of taking soil away but of protecting the infrastructure so there is less erosion. A lot of methods along those lines should be considered.
Even when grants are provided, methods that are known by the department of transport must be considered. They must also be used in municipal areas. If we want to protect the infrastructure and keep it in good condition over the long term, let's build it in a much greener way, with proven techniques. These are not recent inventions. They have been tested and used in a number of places for 10 or 15 years already.