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Another highway project, another MTO fallacy

My faith in the Ontario Ministry of Transportation's sincerity is dropping by the day. Yesterday's paper contains an announcement for yet another transportation (highway) corridor in this neck of the woods -- that's the 4th, if you're keeping track -- and the "Analysis Area" document contains this gem: "MTO is responding positively to the calls to take a more proactive and protective approach than required under the Greenbelt Plan and is not pursuing corridors within the Greenbelt." It sounds wonderful, but it's patently untrue. This particular study may not be affecting the Greenbelt, though the next paragraph essentially says if the Greenbelt is expanded then we'll just have to build in it, but the MTO is most definitely pursuing new transportation corridors within the Greenbelt. This particular study does not even pretend to be looking at anything other than Yet Another New Highway. Never mind that an abandoned and ripped up railway line exists from near downtown Cambridge starting from the base of the future Waterloo regional LRT's Waterloo-Cambridge and potential Guelph-Cambridge lines, to Brantford. A new highway 24 is the only option on the table. More on this piece of concrete later.

Posted at 12:16 on June 19, 2008

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