Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[SammyOES]

The bridge project is scheduled to start with advance utility relocation work this year. Bridge rebuilding will start in November 2017 and continue through 2018. According to a city report, the project includes:

If the bridge isn't going to be complete until 2018 - is there really any chance of the whole highway being done by 2020?

As for the comparison to the LRT cost - it's probably not actually a good thing to bring up. I suspect the cost (at least in construction/maintenance/operation terms and not counting externalities) per user of the new highway 7 is significantly cheaper. It just gives more ammunition (even if slightly dishonest ammunition) to the anti-LRT crowd.