adma
Superstar
I never said NO ONE says Highway 10. Clearly some people on this forum do. But people I've spoken to in real life? No. My dad grew up in Mississauga, and went to school at T.L. Kennedy (which is on Hurontario) and even he never says Highway 10. "Highway 10" is historical, and that's about it. What's so special about that moniker that it must be preserved?
Well, by extension, you might as well ask what's so special about anything so-called "historical" that it must be preserved. And I'll betcha a lot of those people you've spoken to in real life are pretty much dunces when it comes to issues of Mississauga heritage, until/unless something like Doors Open brings it to their attention--but does that mean it should be written off? No.
I personally DO like the Ontario highway crown/shield things. But the province removed those designations, and unless it wants to maintain those numbers just to have consistency in numbers (not against that either), then we should refer to these roads by their legal names.
And really, as much as you older folk might like to keep those old designations, the younger generation has never SEEN those signs, which are pretty much all gone now anyway, so they wouldn't know what you're talking about to begin with.
Well, what's done is done--though remember that this critique is over whether the province should have removed such designations in the first place. And to be honest, said younger generation representatives you're speaking of would probably be of the bored "are we there yet" school of long-distance motor travel, who think anything other than the 401/QEW is "weird".
In summary, if you wanna bring them back, petition the province (or something). Because at this rate, all those downloaded highways will be gone for good (as in, gone from collective memory) in a generation.
Well, there might be a reasonable argument to *resurrect* something like a new-age King's Highway system--or else, to kill off what remains, even the anachronistic King's Highway label, on behalf of 407-style SAT-test bubbles or something...