Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[SammyOES2]

I think the highway between KW / Guelph is a no brainer, imo.

A LRT line isn't an acceptable substitute anytime soon. There's too many people starting and/or ending their journeys in locations with no/bad/average transit. These people would still have to drive a portion of the route or make at least 2-3 transfers on systems with not very frequent service. And that's during peak periods. Trying to get between some random residential area in KW to some other random residential area in Guelph on a weekend or later in the evening would be a huge waste of time.

And if the argument is that the highway doesn't have the ridership to support it, that argument applies even more to an LRT line between the two cities (for the forseeable future. Hopefully long-term that changes).

The existing highway 7 is almost certainly going to slow down over the short-medium term. More and more development is planned along the highway, which means more roundabouts/stoplights, slower average speeds, etc. Even increasing it to 4 lanes the whole way wouldn't fix the problem.