Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[ijmorlan]

Hwy 7 is every government's favourite election tool. They all announce they will build it a year out from an election and then promptly quietly cancel it afterward. You can't campaign on building a highway that you've completed, afterall. It's been going on long enough that it deserves a Heritage Minute spot.

Heritage Minute

This one really is taking it a bit far. I mean it’s one thing to straighten another 30km of some random 2-lane rural highway every election season. But it sounds like they’re trying to pretend they’re now beginning the project, as if people in KW don’t remember all the construction a few years ago to replace the Victoria St. bridge, re-arrange the Wellington St. ramps, and other related changes. This project has already been started but then put on pause.

Of course I think the overall project is largely unneeded, but that doesn’t mean I can’t recognize self-serving nonsense when I see it.