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Originally Posted by DirectionNorth
Depends on the cost-benefit ratio. How many hours are lost to accidents on the 17, compared to, say, the 401 between London and Kitchener? How much will it cost to mitigate either?
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It would cost
billions of dollars to provide an alternate route since one would be building a parallel highway for most of 17 and 11.
London-Kitchener has alternate routes because it's in farm country (easy to build/farms need access) and there are hundreds of thousands of people living there.
Some people live in the boonies and expect things like divided highways everywhere, rail service, and major metro hospitals in podunksville. "BUT THEY GET IT IN THE SOUTH!" goes the refrain. Yeah, because
millions of people live there in closely spaced major cities, not thousands strung along thousands of kilometres of highways in the boonies. Double points for those who live in unorganized areas and pay peanuts in property taxes, yet expect large city municipal services.
But yes, I expect the brigade to cry "Bird!" whenever they are inconvenienced. That being said, government can easily ignore them, because most (a) Accept that living in the boonies has trade-offs and don't whine, and (b) The handful who do complain are just a handful.