General Politics Discussion

[danbrotherston]

You're optimistic. The highway is there to promote development in the greenbelt. It is the policy that his donors want.

My bet is, it'll get built before the next election, or at least be so far along as to be impossible to cancel. And I don't see us having AW2D GO or highway 7 by then.

Ford is an unmitigated disaster. IMO 413 is the most unrecoverable harm he's going to cause. Even our healthcare system can be rebuilt, the Holland Marsh cannot be unpaved.

Hwy 413 doesn't go anywhere near the Holland Marsh

This is missing the point entirely. Whether the road goes through the Holland Marsh itself or not is irrelevant. If we were only paving the 413, it would be bad, but not a disaster. The problem is that it will induce sprawl all throughout the area. The paving will be parking lots and driveways.

And yes, maybe not the Holland Marsh itself, but the greenbelt as a whole so I'm unsure of what point you were specifically trying to make?