I am saddened and angry to hear that Doug Ford plans to go ahead with the environmental disaster known as Highway 413. To be blunt, we don’t need another highway. Adding more highway does not reduce traffic; in fact, it promotes more cars on the road and will quickly fill up and become just another congestion nightmare.
What does reduce traffic? Disincentivizing driving (by making it more difficult/costly), and promoting other forms of transportation, like trains/rapid transit. In this time of rapid climate change, I am so sad to hear of our politicians supporting highway development.
We need to let go of the old ways and plan for a future that we’d actually want to live in.
Peggy Lucas,
Guelph