Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[danbrotherston]

And one thing people without a car never seem to understand is that a lot of people have a car because they like to travel and they actually do stuff outside of their own city. This attitude of "we're reinforcing a bad habit" or whatever seems to equate driving with smoking, and it's really annoying. Obviously it'd be great if I could take a train everywhere I want to go. I'd love that! I love trains. But I can't. This isn't Japan. It doesn't go to the Dryden Tract. Or my parents place in rural Ontario. Or theme parks in the middle of nowhere in the US.

Sorry, I've wanted to vent that for a while but resisted, but people keep bringing up this "we should screw over cars" thing.

This isn't an argument for a new highway 7 though.  This is an argument that we should have area's which transit can't feasibly serve be connected by roads, which nobody is arguing against.

Yes, there are plenty of places where driving will always make sense.  We aren't talking about that, we're talking about places where transit could make sense but we're choosing not to make it a priority.

As someone without ownership of a car, I know very well what it takes to travel outside of town, I do so frequently.  And it usually involves renting a car.  Going to Dryden, sure, I will most likely always need a car for that.

But why does going to Guelph require that?  And why are we spending umpteen millions of dollars building a new highway before even providing the option of transit?