Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[LesPio]

Apparently this highway was mentioned in the budget (along with the hospital talk).

Lol, I took a look.  This is what I found:

“Building the New Highway 7

The next phase of construction for the new Highway 7 between Kitchener and Guelph will provide relief to the gridlocked Highway 401 and connect the fast‐growing urban centres of Kitchener, Waterloo and Guelph. Design of the Frederick Street bridge replacement is well underway with utility work targeted to begin in 2023.”


That’s it.  Detailed plans/maps exist for the highways they’re actually building.  And the milestones aren’t “utility work targeted to begin”.

Local politicians are such wimpy lapdogs.  Either come out and say that the highway isn’t needed and the project should be killed.  Or come out and say that you’re sick of the province jerking you around announcing multi-year milestones that are a minor point in any serious highway development. 

This “I’m happy to see the province is taking the project seriously” nonsense has to stop.

Edit: And because I know where this will go, obviously the new highway will provide exactly zero “relief” to the 401.

The province has been painfully slow on this...I'm curious to know how much tax revenue (payroll tax, gas tax, sales tax, etc) the province siphons from our area and the tax dollar investment it  returns  to our area over the course of a year, 5 years, 10 years.....does the money stay in this area?
Of course this has been dragging on...I'm curious to know how much tax revenue (payroll tax, gas tax, sales tax, etc) the province siphons from our area and returns the money to our area over the course of a year, 5 years, 10 years