Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[ijmorlan]

I just want the new access roads under the train tracks. If those are built (specifically the western one) then we can close the Lancaster St. road crossing and eliminate problems at Lancaster/Victoria and Lancaster/Krug/Cedar.

That would be an interesting idea. I don't think it would ever happen, but I do think the region should study the idea.

To be clear, the new access roads are part of the Highway 7 plan; the only question is timing.

That being said, I don’t expect the Region to take seriously the idea that Lancaster doesn’t need to cross the tracks at all, so rather than building yet another road/rail grade separation, we can just close the road, leaving active transportation only (which can at some point get its own much cheaper grade separation).

But if the new access roads do get built, they might cause some people to choose to use them rather than Lancaster, reducing traffic levels on Lancaster and possibly causing others to start thinking in this way; or at least slow down progress on the grade separation. In some cases, a slowdown can be turned into a cancellation. Usually this has been used to cancel LRT projects, but it’s not impossible for it to apply to ill-conceived road projects.