#highway413 — Public Fediverse posts

"Transit over Traffic: Hard Truths for Addressing Gridlock in the GTHA" report from Environmental Defence and Transport Action Ontario:
- Ontario’s response to the congestion crisis is making traffic problems worse
- $80 billion targeted at highway expansions could build over 400km of new rapid & regional transit

https://environmentaldefence.ca/report/transit-over-traffic-2025-highway413/

https://environmentaldefence.ca
https://ontario.transportaction.ca/

#TOPoli #ONPoli #Transit #PublicTransit #Highway413

Reason #28 why #FordMustGo

Ford's announcement of #Highway413 in 2022 was part of his strategy to open the Greenbelt and make developers rich. It doesn't make sense for commuters - most are traveling north-south - but it runs through large areas owned by Ford's favourite group of land developers. We're trading farmland and environmentally important areas of the province for urban sprawl and gridlock. 1950s era thinking.

#OntarioElection2025 #ONpoli #StopHighway413
https://thepointer.com/article/2024-11-03/ford-s-latest-bill-fast-tracking-construction-of-413-could-be-the-gateway-for-highways-to-hell

Reason #28 why #FordMustGo

Ford's announcement of #Highway413 in 2022 was part of his strategy to open the Greenbelt and make developers rich. It doesn't make sense for commuters - most are traveling north-south - but it runs through large areas owned by Ford's favourite group of land developers. We're trading farmland and environmentally important areas of the province for urban sprawl and gridlock. 1950s era thinking.

#OntarioElection2025 #ONpoli #StopHighway413
https://thepointer.com/article/2024-11-03/ford-s-latest-bill-fast-tracking-construction-of-413-could-be-the-gateway-for-highways-to-hell

Reason #28 why #FordMustGo

Ford's announcement of #Highway413 in 2022 was part of his strategy to open the Greenbelt and make developers rich. It doesn't make sense for commuters - most are traveling north-south - but it runs through large areas owned by Ford's favourite group of land developers. We're trading farmland and environmentally important areas of the province for urban sprawl and gridlock. 1950s era thinking.

#OntarioElection2025 #ONpoli #StopHighway413
https://thepointer.com/article/2024-11-03/ford-s-latest-bill-fast-tracking-construction-of-413-could-be-the-gateway-for-highways-to-hell

Reason #28 why #FordMustGo

Ford's announcement of #Highway413 in 2022 was part of his strategy to open the Greenbelt and make developers rich. It doesn't make sense for commuters - most are traveling north-south - but it runs through large areas owned by Ford's favourite group of land developers. We're trading farmland and environmentally important areas of the province for urban sprawl and gridlock. 1950s era thinking.

#OntarioElection2025 #ONpoli #StopHighway413
https://thepointer.com/article/2024-11-03/ford-s-latest-bill-fast-tracking-construction-of-413-could-be-the-gateway-for-highways-to-hell

Reason #28 why #FordMustGo

Ford's announcement of #Highway413 in 2022 was part of his strategy to open the Greenbelt and make developers rich. It doesn't make sense for commuters - most are traveling north-south - but it runs through large areas owned by Ford's favourite group of land developers. We're trading farmland and environmentally important areas of the province for urban sprawl and gridlock. 1950s era thinking.

#OntarioElection2025 #ONpoli #StopHighway413
https://thepointer.com/article/2024-11-03/ford-s-latest-bill-fast-tracking-construction-of-413-could-be-the-gateway-for-highways-to-hell

You know, if the province of #Ontario had kept the #Highway407 instead of selling it (thx, Harris), it would be _paid off_ by now, and it would be handling the traffic that the stupid #Highway413 is intended to alleviate. Instead, we get a new highway we don't need (paid for by tax $$), and the 407 remains criminally underutilized.

What a series of absolutely stupid decisions. Thanks #Conservatives! you jackasses.

https://mastodon.bot/@MaritStiles/113744255518084592

From the David Suzuki Foundation

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The Ontario government has just announced it will fast-track construction of Highway 413.

This is terrible because the proposed mega-highway will destroy thousands of acres of farmland and hundreds of acres of Greenbelt.

In fact, as part of its announcement Ontario pledged to “accelerate” the expropriation of farmland and allow highway construction to proceed “around-the-clock, 24/7.”

The situation is extremely serious.

#onpoli #highway413

What's happened to Toronto's population density in the last 50 years? The old city got smaller (pink), towers were added to downtown (dark green), and everyone who couldn't afford a place moved to the suburbs (green).

Don't like highways and sprawl and paving over the Greenbelt? Then support more dense housing in the whole city.

https://doodles.mountainmath.ca/posts/2024-04-23-population-timelines-update/

#Toronto #TOPoli #Housing #Density #Greenbelt #Highway413

So are the feds just going to daintily step aside and let Ontario bulldoze vast swaths of precious countryside for the sake of building the unneeded Highway 413 or what? Sure starting to look that way.
#Ontario #transit #Highway413

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ottawa-ontario-deal-highway-413-impact-assessment-1.7174561

Environmental Defence is conducting a webinar April 18, 7 pm on the proposed Highway 413 in Ontario.
If you would like to join, register here:
#Ontario #Highway413
https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/email?mid=1008deeb625340ca8f0dda82e4df7b11

So.
Nothing now stopping the Ford government paving over a huge swath of prime countryside?
#onpoli #ontario #highway413

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ottawa-deal-highway-413-1.7151471

There are many ways to oppose #Highway413. You can use these forms: https://www.highway413.ca/contactus-2/, https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/en/feedback/default.aspx, https://www.ontario.ca/feedback/contact-us?id=78509&nid=73620, https://www.ontario.ca/feedback/contact-us?id=26938&nid=97174 and call these numbers: +18002684686 +18002687095 +14163251941 1-877-522-6916 and email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] #hwy413 #greenbelt #onpoli

🇨🇦 #ontario #Highway413 #highway407
New Report: Ontario Government can Improve GTHA Congestion by Reducing 407 ETR tolls for Trucks Instead of Paving the Greenbelt with Highway 413.

https://environmentaldefence.ca/2023/11/07/new-report-ontario-government-can-improve-gtha-congestion-by-reducing-407-etr-tolls-for-trucks-instead-of-paving-the-greenbelt-with-highway-413/

The 905 Round-Up: Halton School Board Fails and Highway Follies

The 905 Round-Up is coming to you early this week!

A follow up on stories we've already touched upon on the podcast. Starting with the Halton District School Board. Last year, the board made international headlines when a transgender teacher was photographed wearing enorm

https://905er.ca/2023/02/the-905-round-up-halton-school-board-fails-and-highway-follies/

#onpoli #905erPodcastEpisodes #HDSB #Highway413 #podcasts

Highway 413 is a bad idea for the environment, but it’s also a bad idea for wasteful spending.
▪️413 would move ~7k people per hour
▪️for half the $ we could instead subsidize trucks to use the 407, moving 21k trucks per day off the 401
▪️ for 3/4 the $ we could expand service on Kitchener & Milton GO; launch a new GO train to Bolton; and build BRT or LRT in places like Brampton & Vaughan near the 413’s proposed route. This would move 22-29k per hour.

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/02/18/why-doug-fords-hwy-413-makes-little-economic-sense-and-should-be-scrapped.html

#ONPoli #Highway413