Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[jeffster]

Yet it seems that it's now officially approved...again...

https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-new...-7-3974375

Hopefully shovels in before next election -- but it really does smell like an election promise, much like the Liberals before, and the PC's before that, and the NDP before that, and the Liberals before that, and the PC's before that.

Just seems like we've been down this road (pardon the pun) several times....

This is the same old shit. Pick one small part of the project that takes 2 years and fund it while doing nothing else.  It doesn’t move the needle at all on completion because if anyone was serious this would be done in parallel with at least 3 other parts (like the bridges over the Grand River!).

I admit I was fooled last election because I thought no party would be stupid enough to not keep working on the project after it had gotten to the point of expropriations and construction started.  But whoops I was wrong.

The stupidity of Ford is on display again though because he could have done this token work 3 years ago and then picked the next token project now and been able to claim it was continuous.

As long as any government feels they can get some MPP’s from the 2 regions, they’ll continue to do it. It’s not just Ford, but all 9 previous premiers, going back to John Robarts (PC), then Bill Davis (PC), then Frank Miller (PC), then David Peterson (Lib), then Bob Rae (NDP), then Mike Harris (PC), then Ernie Eves (PC), then Dalton McGuinty (Lib) <- he swore on his mother it would be done, then Kathleen Wynne (Lib) and now Doug Ford (PC).

For whatever reason, this project gets stalled constantly. And I doubt it will be the last time. We’ll have highway 7 expanded to Stratford before Guelph. That I do believe.