Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[ac3r]

Here's your Line 3 :'P

I used to think Victoria would be most ideal and in a way it would be because you could easily throw tracks down the middle of most of it, but Ottawa makes more sense because it has existing urban communities around them which have infrastructure and services required for more development right out the gate. It's also much more conducive to TOD primarily because you don't have the Grand River as a physical barrier to urban intensification where there is a river, valley and incredibly steep shore banks there...and almost everything beyond it is Woolwich...that'd be a political mess. Where I put the dots (those would be stations heh) there is already plenty of room for density and in fact many areas are seeing it already, even way out by the Strausburg dot where there are a number of fairly large projects with towers.

It'd lets us keep Victoria/Highway 7 as an efficient and important road in and out of the region (and as a very good link to Guelph). The awful streetscape could for sure be redone but the road itself is useful and that's reflected in the amount of traffic it sees (and I'm not referring to lack of alternatives here...this road just sees a lot of stuff like commercial or commuter traffic). Even directly, look at the number of successful businesses that exist along there. Most of them are things that "need" a car, in a way: flooring, pool supplies, auto repairs, furniture, appliances, a couple department store type places like Canadian Tire and a lot of industrial focused businesses. All useful stuff.