General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

The contact listed at the bottom of the notice was the Region of Waterloo, and it has the Region of Waterloo logo at the top, so I have to think it is the Region of Waterloo.

It’s a Regional road, and the project is not to install a grade separation as such but to improve the road, including building a grade separation.

Who is pushing for a grade separation is another question.

I still say the road crossing could be closed and not have a significant impact on traffic. It might even improve it, because everybody would just use other routes to cross the tracks (including the 2 brand new ones being built for the freeway interchange) rather than this one that feeds into narrow Lancaster St. east of Victoria. Dumb thing is, we will try it closed during construction, but there will be no observations made of whether that means we don’t need the crossing at all. There are a lot of more worthy transportation causes that could use the money instead of the grade separation.