Highway 174

[waterloowarrior]

Originally Posted by Richard Eade

This was another case of Staff completely missing the mark!

There was a request from an east end Councillor to connect the Hunt Club Road to the 417 so that Orleans residents could have better access to the airport. Unfortunately, the word 'direct' was used instead of 'better'. Staff when off and commissioned the EA for a direct connection from the Hunt Club Road to Orleans. Compound this with the Councillors' refusal to actually READ things before they approve them and then we get an EA for the two phases; first to the 417, and then to Innes. (The only reason it went to Innes, if I recall, is because Staff couldn't get a more direct route through the Mer Bleue.)

^ The Innes/Walkley connection has been in the OP since at least 1997... part of the approvals for the Cyrville and Innes commercial areas included a clause limiting development in those areas until the Innes-Walkley connection was compeleted .

It is desired to achieve a "balance of needs" recognising that competing demands for capacity on the Innes Road corridor arise from development both in and outside the Core/Node Areas. To achieve this balance, development is to be phased such that the combined number of jobs in the Cyrville Core Activity Area and commercial lands east of Highway 417 in the area of Innes and Cyriville Roads not exceed 5,000 until the City has committed to the construction of the Innes-Walkley Connection in its five year Capital Works Programme.