Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[MidTowner]

By this logic we should never invest anything in making driving better because it "reinforces the cycle".

I think you’re defeating a straw man there. We know that highway expansion creates expensive sprawl, and that induced demand means that the highway expansion will become congested. Nevertheless, I don’t think there’s many people who would argue that we should try to do away with highways. That’s probably not going to happen, and it would be silly to think so. Politically, it’s possible to build a new highway between KW and Guelph, but probably impossible to invest in good transit between the two.

We could build good transit between the two, and it would avoid yet more urban sprawl, which is a predictable outcome of a highway expansion project like this. But, unfortunately, in our current landscape that's pretty unlikely.