nfitz
Superstar
True - though I don't recall seeing an alignment. Just corridors, similar to shown below.
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ericmacm
Active Member
This is true, the current alignment (as opposed to the study corridor) was created in 2020 after the HWY 413 study was resumed, but I still wouldn’t consider it “out of nowhere”. The narrowing down of the alignment is what should be one of the later steps in the planning process. The only reason that the Bradford Bypass has had the actual alignment planned for so long is because it almost reached the construction phase 2 times - once in 1985 (after which the project was cancelled) and once in 2003 (after which the project was shelved). I wouldn’t consider that the normal process for highway construction, though. These projects shouldn’t normally take 50 years to go from planning to construction.
Our best point of comparison, the HWY 407E project, started undergoing the EA process in the 2000s and was already at the “preferred route” stage in 2007.
nfitz
Superstar
Nor would I.