Clappisons Corner

[coalminecanary]

The province is going to put highway 5 OVER highway 6 and put a cloverleaf there. The public info sessions are underway.

5 years ago the projected cost for this project was 75 million.

Today I'm guessing it's more - 85 or 90? They won't say because it "may affect the bid process". By the time the dust settles it is possible we'll spend 100,000,000 dollars on this crap-show.

The city is pitching in 25% of the costs on this project.

That's 18,750,000 minimum - probably 25 million in the end.

This is to service some new sprawl housing plus the retail there. Highway 5 will still (and will forevermore) bottleneck in waterdown. Highway 6 will continue to bottleneck in puslinch - so this isn't about throughput on those roads for goods transport to the 400 series highways. This is pure sprawl development.

And the city bitches about 650 grand for a downtown grocery store?