Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[dtkvictim]

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.

If you are suggesting it's efficient right now, that's a joke. I can't see how it could become an efficient road without reducing it to 2 lanes, and adding access roads for the businesses or something like that. Suggesting that commuter traffic is using this road out of desire and not due to a lack of alternatives (especially to Guelph) just isn't right either... Why would anyone want to commute on a road with a hundred driveways, many lights, and mixed with non-commuter traffic?

The majority of the businesses there definitely don't require a car, even if some of them do. Even places like Canadian Tire only require a car for a small fraction of trips, if it wasn't so difficult and miserable to get there without a car. Even with a car it's so miserable that I drive to other Canadian Tire locations, and the other locations generally aren't even in nice places...