Steve & Kelly wrote:
Leo, thanks for the compliment, but there are parts of Milton that are already starting to experience gridlock. Have you seen James Snow and the 401 during rush hour? Have you driven up or down Thompson Road?
Steve, yes I get caught in the James Snow / 401 mess all the time ... that's hardly your classic gridlock though. If the 401 would move, cars would be able to enter it and the lights at main/james snow wouldn't be the mess they are. Said differently, the only thing that will solve that mess is fixing the 401 congestion ... no amount of overly-funded Milton transit buses will make a dent in that.
And yes I drive up and down Thompson Road all the time ... the lights are a mess but I don't see gridlock there either.
One last point I want to make -- not to anything you said specifically -- is re. the comments about density and transit. Yes I agree that higher density would naturally lead to increased use of transit ... but it is totally bass-ackward to strive for higher density just so that people will use a frickin' bus.
Personally, I LIKE sprawl. What's wrong with a little sprawl out here anyway? It's the suburbs ... that's why we moved here! If we wanted high density urban living, we'd move to Toronto already.
P.S. In case my posts haven't been clear, I do support transit. We should have some buses to serve the population, and probably big buses to and from the Go Station at peak time. But the extent to which the town has carried it is completely ridiculous IMO and I support Rick Malbeouf's attempts to inject a reality check and some fiscal responsibility back into the process.