I mean. The people in favour haven't even come up with a compelling argument for why this highway is even necessary. Including yourself.
Other than they like having it as a luxury. Which is a terrible reason to build a new highway.
The environmental concerns are reason enough to not build it...
This is a really good point. If this highway was really so needed the municipalities could have built their own road ages ago.
But they didn't. Because it wasn't.
Ok. But most trips don't end in Newmarket.
Most drivers are trying to get downtown. So the actual time saving won't be the same because there are other routes more south that might be better.
So it's stupid to spend billions on a route like this.
This math is disingenuous as you are including the portion on the 400 that is already fast.
Connecting existing roads will still be destructive but less destructive than the actual 400 series highway.
I would prefer no highway at all. And keep the land as farm land. That would be even less...
I live in Vaughan and had a work project in Kawartha Lakes.
Taking the 407 to get there vs. going up the 400 and using Davis/Green Lane saves all of 4 minutes. This highway would have similar time savings.
That is not worth it for such a destructive highway.
And besides even if the...
Ok. Then just build a road that connects Queensville Side Road with Line 9. That would be way more cost effective than this over designed highway.
It doesn't need to be a 400 series highway. A regional road like 88 or 89 is good enough for this area.
This is actually not true and makes me...
I'm still trying to decide which highway is more useless for solving the GTA traffic problems. This one or the 413.
Could have saved billions and just connected Queensville side road to Bradford.