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Originally Posted by sonysnob
You are entitled to have whatever opinion of highway widening that you wish, however, just keep in mind that widening the 401 through Chatham is going to cost about a billion dollars (which is a realistic estimate from the MTO), and in an era with fixed budges and an emphasis on reducing government spending, that's a billion dollars that therefore cannot be spent elsewhere. So, my point is, saying that the 401 needs to be six-laned through Chatham-Kent is saying that it needs to be prioritized above over not-announced highway twinning in northern Ontario.
Again, you can support any policy you choose to, but you point is you can't have everything that you want, so if you think that the 401 needs to be widened to six lanes through C-K, then you think that needs to happen before any additional highway widening up north.
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I've actually been aware of that all along. Obviously, spending a billion here means not spending (or being able to spend) it elsewhere. (I've) never implied that we have an infinite amount of money. I'm at the point where I'm just happy if anything infrastructure-related (including hospitals) gets done at all.
Oh by the way, did your friend get back to you with the numbers yet?