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Do you support completing the Mid-Peninsula Highway? Why or why not?

Responses to the question: "Do you support completing the Mid-Peninsula Highway? Why or why not?"

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4 Candidate Responses (top)

Hamilton East-Stoney Creek
CandidateBrief ResponseFull Response
Bob Green Innes No As outlined in my LRT answer, now is not the time to undertake major capital expenditures. Letting Ontario debt, already at $250bn, balloon to some unimaginable height in hopes of a currency default is sheer madness but that is exactly what many Western policymakers seem to be doing.

From a broader perspective, the question might be rephrased as - should Ontario destroy and put pressure on thousands of acres of prime farmland to enhance opportunities for a few developers? Should subsidized highways be encouraged instead of tax paying railroads? I believe the answer to these should be no. Building highways just encourages unsustainable sprawl at a time when our ability to produce more cheap oil is being strained to the limit, especially by developing economies. We must adjust to these new realities. The time for humble honesty is at hand.
Mark Cripps Maybe I believe residents in the area's affected by the proposed expansion deserve to have the biggest say in whether or not this highway moves forward. Almost everything we buy and consume is transported by trucks.
Paul Miller No The NDP's first priority for reducing congestion is to make transit more accessible and affordable to Ontarians. Second, we believe we can make much more efficient use of highways - for example, by speeding up the planned implementation of high-occupancy vehicle lanes. There may be cases where the expansion and extension of highways is necessary, but all cost-effective and environmentally preferable options should be explored first - something we believe the Liberal government has failed to do. Historically, we have raised concern about planned highway expansions that threaten the Greenbelt, such as the Bradford by-pass, the GTA West highway to Guelph, and the Mid-Peninsula highway. We will continue to raise those concerns in the future.
W. Peter Randall No No I do not support the Mid Pen Highway, highways and additional lanes are not the way to our future. We cannot keep adding more lanes and more cars. We must reduce our dependence on ever scarcer fossil fuels that are congesting our planet.

More trucking needs to be moved back to rail as does more commuter traffic. HOV lanes are a start and it is fabulous to see this in the Burl-Oakville corridor now but seamless, affordable, timely GO Transit where one can work downtown Hamilton from Mississauga, Grimsby, Stoney Creek or Vineland is the answer.

Response Summary (top)

Brief ResponseCount% of Total
Yes00.0%
No375.0%
Maybe125.0%

4 Candidates Have Not Responded (top)

Hamilton East-Stoney Creek
Gregg Pattinson
Nancy Fiorentino
Philip Doucette
Silas Khokar