[coalminecanary]

Actually the report specifically calls out residential and retail development surrounding 5/6 as a major driver for future traffic.

If this is about better access to the 401 and beyond, the problem is there's no official plan for what to do at Puslinch. The word from the province is "they will continue to monitor it".

Increasing throughput at clappison's is not going to make the highway any safer unless they have a plan for these bottlenecks. And if they do have a plan, these should be addressed first and THEN we can see how clappison's holds up.

This is an exercise in inducing demand - if we make the highway fast, smooth and separated then more people will want to use it and the case for expansion and expropriation grows stronger.

If we want to improve the links to Guelph etc then we should be building new rail and subsidizing buses instead of spending 100 million on an intersection where nobody waits more than one light cycle even at the height of rush hour. There used to be direct buses from mcmaster but iirc they stopped running them a few years ago.