05-06-2018, 09:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-06-2018, 09:54 PM by danbrotherston.)
(05-06-2018, 09:40 PM)MacBerry Wrote:(05-04-2018, 09:04 AM)Canard Wrote: Why are they suddenly exploring this route? And not Milton?
Those tracks are in terrible shape, we’ve walked the Mill Run Trail next to them.
It is an election year provincially and locally ... the Minister of Transport is from Cambridge and she will not be re-elected as the Liberals soon to be are an extinct beast. None of these rail events (Milton or Guelph) will happen ...better to make the folks of Cambridge think something is happening... Isn't it Preston that wants to be in the 1960's in transportation. While all these issues are election pandering by Craig et al.
Take the 20 year highway war to get a new highway to and from - Guelph & Kitchener. Still not a done deal except in press releases.
They should have made this "GO-NoGO" announcement on April FOOLS DAY!
This is an initiative started by the region, under the regional transportation master plan. Your view is extremely cynical, but I know some of the staff who worked on this plan. They're doing this because they do care about getting transportation to Cambridge, and they believe this is a more realistic option of doing so in the medium term than continuing to push for a Milton connection. Whether politicians are more likely to push for this now because it's an election year doesn't change that.
And the highway to Guelph...is literally under construction at this very moment.