General Road and Highway Discussion

[The85]

I thought this tidbit was interesting. When they connected Westmount to Filsinger Rd (Westmount now in Kitchener), the original understanding was that Waterloo would pay for the CNR bridge over Westmount as Kitchener had paid for the bridge over Belmont. Waterloo reneged on the deal, and so in retaliation, Kitchener refused to widen Weber to four lanes from Victoria north to Waterloo.

This is where Regional Roads now benefit us (post 1973). As Westmount Road clearly serves a regional function connecting North Dumfries in the south (I'm thinking back to when Fischer-Hallman south of present day Westmount used to be Westmount Road) to Woolwich Township in the north, the regional tax base would cover something like this, rather than a city tax levy, resulting in bickering between the lower tier municipalities.