Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[danbrotherston]

A freeway to Guelph is far better than having the existing highway turning into an even greater Stroad. The typical stroad is an evolution of old rural highways as the areas around them grow. A freeway doesn't induce as much of a demand for eventual commercial along the route as the requirement to exit the highway causes another bit of friction for the driver to stop.

Highway 7 is a stroad IN Kitchener but the suggestion given by KevinL to connect it to Shirley would eliminate that. Outside the city it has few destinations and is a proper highway. Improving the highway with a parallel cycling path, and a divider in the middle to prevent head on collisions would fix the safety issues. You'd now have a proper highway connecting the cities, with limited access (only a few businesses). Yeah, Shirley is also kind of a stroad, but it's not as bad as Victoria. But what are you going to do when the state of the art in road construction in your province is absolute garbage.

Building a new divided highway with new capacity absolutely will induce more demand, that's the whole point of building it.

If we built transit instead, we'd induce that demand in transit ridership instead.