Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[ac3r]

But the province has decreed we get an expressway instead, so that's what we plan around.

I just don't see what is bad about this. A new, modern highway to our closest neighbour is a good investment. And widening existing, low capacity roads (either Shirley or those within the townships) don't make a lot of sense because they'd just become really wide roads, not highways. Highways have a degree of safety included in the design which I am sure many would disagree with, but it's true. Any traffic engineer can tell you this, or it's easy enough to just study highway safety design. If we can build a modern road with a modern design that gets you to and from Guelph quicker, that's a win in my eyes. The existing one is old and bad. I'd like to see a good pedestrian/MUT bridge built as well so those who can't drive can still safely travel westward, but that'd be a regional project, not something to do with those who handle highways.