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RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - the_conestoga_guy - 04-13-2023 It's likely lip-service, but I'll post some Doug Ford quotes from today's Record article here for the sake of posterity. https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2023/04/13/premier-doug-ford-makes-holds-funding-announcement-for-innovation-arena-at-the-university-of-waterloo.html Quote:In other comments, Ford said his government intends to build a new Highway 7 between Kitchener and Guelph, a long-approved project that has faced repeated delays. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - ijmorlan - 04-13-2023 Any news on the new crossings under the railway? Those would actually be useful…the Grand River bridges are just going to be white elephants. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - plam - 04-13-2023 Meanwhile, it really has become much easier to go between Guelph and Kitchener with GO Transit now. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - SF22 - 04-14-2023 If they could fix up the Frederick St bridge and make the Bruce St connection (pedestrian & bike-friendly) between Victoria and Wellington, that would be enough to keep me happy for years. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - SammyOES - 04-14-2023 (04-13-2023, 03:30 PM)the_conestoga_guy Wrote:Quote:“I’m going to get a firecracker going and move these guys along,” Ford said. “We’re actually seeing progress now.” Lol, that probably plays better when you’re not 5ish years into running things. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - ijmorlan - 04-14-2023 (04-14-2023, 06:27 PM)SammyOES Wrote: Lol, that probably plays better when you’re not 5ish years into running things. Remember how long Stephen Harper’s government called itself “Canada’s New Government”? RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - SF22 - 08-24-2023 There are traffic counters on the Victoria/Frederick ramps for on-northbound and off-southbound this week. I'm wondering if it might be data-gathering for the eventual readjustment of the Wellington and Frederick/Victoria ramp configuration. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - westwardloo - 09-28-2023 Looks like behind the scene Design work is still slowly moving forwards. WSP just completed the Design and Construction report for the bridge over the Grand River. https://newhighway7.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/New-Hwy-7-Grand-River-Bridges-DCR-Final.pdf I will wait for the oncoming onslaught of posts complaining about car centric investments. (Europe has highways between major population centres) I still stand by this being a critical piece of infrastructure that will connect the city of Guelph with K-W. Do I wish all day 2-way GO would come to the Region faster absolutely, but I also see the benefit to improving all mods of transportation. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - cherrypark - 09-28-2023 (09-28-2023, 11:20 AM)westwardloo Wrote: Looks like behind the scene Design work is still slowly moving forwards. WSP just completed the Design and Construction report for the bridge over the Grand River. Buses use highways too. The induced demand remains a drain on transit demand, but this also benefits enabling Victoria St. to perhaps growth back towards a part of the city than a commuter car sewer over the next couple decades. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - SF22 - 09-28-2023 (09-28-2023, 12:06 PM)cherrypark Wrote:(09-28-2023, 11:20 AM)westwardloo Wrote: Looks like behind the scene Design work is still slowly moving forwards. WSP just completed the Design and Construction report for the bridge over the Grand River. I honestly believe that we will never see Victoria shrunk from 4/5 to 2 lanes without an alternative route to get towards Guelph. I'd love to see a third LRT line go east-west along Victoria from the proposed Breslau GO station all the way out to the Boardwalk, but you know people will kick their feet and yell about it taking lanes away from cars if there's not another option. I don't love the idea that we'll be cutting through the greenspace near Bingemans, but I don't think we'll be able to get approval for a truly innovative transit change on this stretch without it. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - panamaniac - 09-28-2023 (09-28-2023, 12:46 PM)SF22 Wrote:(09-28-2023, 12:06 PM)cherrypark Wrote: Buses use highways too. The induced demand remains a drain on transit demand, but this also benefits enabling Victoria St. to perhaps growth back towards a part of the city than a commuter car sewer over the next couple decades. Has it ever been proposed? I find it hard to imagine. It's not that many years ago that the fight on Victoria S. was widening to 4 lanes vs 3 lanes. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - ac3r - 09-28-2023 I'm fine with Victoria Street being as many lanes as it is...I think the extremist anti-car people tend to forget we still do actually need roads for things. Sometimes they'll need a lot of lanes. It's an incredibly important road leading to the core of our region. But...at the very least they could beautify it and improve the safety. It's soooo ugly. Also I think any east-west LRT would likely run along Ottawa. Victoria would be an easy path to route a train on but from a TOD planning perspective it isn't as ideal as Ottawa would be. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - cherrypark - 09-28-2023 It is a truly barren, non-place currently. The MUTs added make it at least accessible but its such an unpleasant place to be outside of a car (or even inside of one). RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - KevinL - 09-28-2023 It suffers from being both a primary transportation route (road) and commercial node (street), making it a dreaded 'stroad'. If the new highway can take over the road function, then it can be reconfigured to work better as (mainly) a street. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - SF22 - 09-28-2023 (09-28-2023, 01:58 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(09-28-2023, 12:46 PM)SF22 Wrote: I honestly believe that we will never see Victoria shrunk from 4/5 to 2 lanes without an alternative route to get towards Guelph. I'd love to see a third LRT line go east-west along Victoria from the proposed Breslau GO station all the way out to the Boardwalk, but you know people will kick their feet and yell about it taking lanes away from cars if there's not another option. I don't love the idea that we'll be cutting through the greenspace near Bingemans, but I don't think we'll be able to get approval for a truly innovative transit change on this stretch without it. I read it somewhere, months ago, on an official document. But it was something I stumbled across on a tangential project, so the likelihood of me finding it again anytime soon is pretty low. I'm not sure if they want to shrink Victoria past Edna (although there are the rumours that they want to put another LRT line down Victoria), but there's definitely talk about having it be 2 lanes from about Strange/West (where it already is 2 lanes) all the way through to the highway. |