Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

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A 2011 estimate put it at $400 million which is about $435 millions in 2017 dollars

From my first look at that second document SammyOES2 posted it seems like the EA process was biased toward the new option (e.g. enhancements to the existing road are not an option, because they wouldn't meet the demand, but it doesn't talk about induced demand of the new road; or buses are not an option because they would get stuck in the same traffic, but it doesn't consider a bus only rapidway; or trains are not an option because the travel time is too slow (even though they use a 40 minute trip length when it is currently 24 minutes on GO with enhancements still to come) and the origin-destinations too diverse, but doesn't consider rail enhancements coupled with transit network enhancements on each end); or enhancing adjacent roads is not an option because of the considerable cost of a new crossing of the grand river, but a new crossing of the grand river is not a negastive factor in considering the new highway). 

I will have to read it fully before commenting further.