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GTA Relief Valve -New Cities on Ontario's Next Freeway

https://neuenergy.blogspot.com/2018/06/gta-relief-valve-new-cities-on-ontarios.html      This post relates to a growth and highway proposal for Ontario's northern 519 area and the GTA. It has ties to the 400/401/402 freeways and to Huron, Bruce, Grey, Middlesex, Simcoe and Wellington counties. Having fallen off the CN/CP rails in the 1960s and losing out on rural employment and county revenue growth, a Georgian Bay freeway is overdue; highway upgrades and new job centers are survival end games.          Promoted  is a freeway from the 402 east of Strathroy ,  north towards Walkerton/Hanover and thence east to the 400 south of Barrie. To keep the province competitive, expansion of the freeway grid should get on the South-west’s rolling 5-yr Highway Plan. Once a Right-of-Way is secured, construction is staged over decades as a 2-laner and then built out to full freeway standard as mid-century needs dictate.   ...