 City Council approved Chalifoux's preferred alignment, by this time named Ray Gibbon Drive.In the 2001 election, Chalifoux was defeated by former mayor Dr. Richard Plain, who favoured the same alignment as Ratchinsky and proposed a plebiscite on the subject.Chalifoux challenged Plain again in 2004, campaigning this time on issues other than the road, saying that "it [was] time to move on".