I don't get it

From Ray Gronberg's article today in the Herald Sun:

Public Works Department engineers want the City Council to scrap part of Durham's bicycle plan that calls for putting bike lanes on a stretch of Fayetteville Road that's due for a city-funded widening in three years.

The move would save up to $4.5 million and make sure the department doesn't have to rework existing plans for the widening, they say.

But the department's request is running into opposition from the city's Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission, which wants elected officials to uphold the 2-year-old bike plan.

It favors a design change that would make room for the bike lanes by narrowing the road's new travel lanes by a foot, saving $2.25 million in the process.

Here's what i don't get. Didn't we just spend real money developing a bicycle plan? Didn't developing the bike plan (not to mention the pedestrian plan, the Comprehensive Plan/UDO, the Parks and rec master plan, etc.) take a lot of time, money, and energy, and provide the means for Durham to lay out a series of documents describing how we want Durham to grow, what we want Durham to look like, and how we want to get around in Durham in the future?

Seems like every time i turn around, there's a new project being built that doesn't adhere to the guidelines we just developed.

Why bother developing them, then?