05-05-2026, 08:44 PM
(05-05-2026, 01:40 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Well that's great news. It's grading on a curve to be sure, but it is still earned. Leaving aside the cancellation of the downtown grid, and the cancellation of improvements to Benton and Frederick street, the city has made steady incremental progress. There hasn't been massive regressions like other Ontario cities.
Benton and Frederick can't really be blamed on the city for two reasons, the first being it's a Regional Road to begin with, the second being the province made life impossible on that one. It was entirely intended to go forward but then the province stopped that.
The downtown grid also wasn't cancelled, it's completed, there isn't anything left to construct for it, yes there's sections missing (mainly Duke) but again that's thanks to the Region not the city. The Region will be installing cycle track along Victoria from King to Weber as part of the KCTH so the downtown grid is still being expanded to some degree.