Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[MidTowner]

A LRT line isn't an acceptable substitute anytime soon. There's too many people starting and/or ending their journeys in locations with no/bad/average transit. These people would still have to drive a portion of the route or make at least 2-3 transfers on systems with not very frequent service. And that's during peak periods. Trying to get between some random residential area in KW to some other random residential area in Guelph on a weekend or later in the evening would be a huge waste of time.

This is a reinforcing cycle. Transit is “bad” in KW and Guelph because we’ve invested so much to make driving convenient and cheap for the user, and promoted sprawl that’s hard to serve by transit. This new highway will continue that pattern.