09-29-2023, 01:22 PM
What sort of alternatives to a highway between Waterloo Region and Guelph are you guys envisioning anyway? Like...obviously we're not going to build an LRT. Almost nobody except the dorks who wear Lycra or the odd person who takes a leisure day trip will bike between between the two cities, it's just way too much effort/time wasted. Most people are going to take the GO train, bus or drive...the latter two needing roads.
Like I always hear the hate for roads the people who absolutely hate cars, but it's rare that they acknowledge the purpose and necessity of roads. Or propose good alternatives. I mean how do you plan on shipping freight and stuff without good roads? It's usually just a highly emotional or ideological argument that cars are bad, roads are bad, everyone needs to stop using them and we need to direct all road budget to MUTs and other crap. Those are good, sure, but they aren't the same as a highway.
More highway capacity between Waterloo Region, Guelph and everything else westward that isn't in the vicinity of the 401 is good and people will benefit from this, otherwise we wouldn't be planning the changes. We can built MUTs and stuff for the people that want to bike between the two cities (you can do this already anyways and take take side roads to be safer...and of course we need a better bridge across the river for pedestrians/cyclists). But this is a highway and a highway serves an entirely different function that bikes and buses.
Like I always hear the hate for roads the people who absolutely hate cars, but it's rare that they acknowledge the purpose and necessity of roads. Or propose good alternatives. I mean how do you plan on shipping freight and stuff without good roads? It's usually just a highly emotional or ideological argument that cars are bad, roads are bad, everyone needs to stop using them and we need to direct all road budget to MUTs and other crap. Those are good, sure, but they aren't the same as a highway.
More highway capacity between Waterloo Region, Guelph and everything else westward that isn't in the vicinity of the 401 is good and people will benefit from this, otherwise we wouldn't be planning the changes. We can built MUTs and stuff for the people that want to bike between the two cities (you can do this already anyways and take take side roads to be safer...and of course we need a better bridge across the river for pedestrians/cyclists). But this is a highway and a highway serves an entirely different function that bikes and buses.