The Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is planning to construct a new highway to join highway 400 with the 401/407 interchange, travelling through Brampton and HaltonHills, then widening highway 401 to 12 lanes west of there from Trafalgar Road to Hwy. …
The Niagara to GTA (mid-peninsula highway) study team has announced that they are "undertaking additional analysis of highway expansion alternatives in an effort to gain further insight into the complex issues and trade-offs associated with each portion of the study …
The GTA West Corridor Study is "examining the benefits and impacts of both a potential new transportation corridor through Halton Hills and potential improvements to the Highway 401 corridor".
Comments from the public are being accepted, and more information can be …
The Ministry of the Environment has approved the Metrolinx/GO Transit plan to use Tier 4-compliant locomotives on the Georgetown South GO line, including the link to the Pearson Airport. Tier 4 is a stringent new US Environmental Protection Agency emissions …
The Town of Halton Hills is pleased to report that the GTA West Corridor strategy is being delayed for further study, based on strong local opposition to the proposal. See http://www.haltonhills.ca/media/2011/1313001330.pdf.
Miltongreen reports that the Town of Milton has joined …
Halton Regional Chair Gary Carr is pleased that the Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Ontario Minister of Transportation has promised that the Province will not proceed with the Niagara to GTA Corridor through Burlington.
See http://webaps.halton.ca/news/mediashow.cfm?MediaID=2011-07-26-11-08-31.
Sustainable Vaughan is launching a coalition against the GTA West corridor, a proposed new highway linking Highway 400 to Guelph and/or Halton, cutting through north Halton.
Visit http://sustainablevaughan.com/ for information.
The draft Transportation Development Strategy Report for the GTA West transportation corridor (through Halton Hills) is available for review and comment until Thursday, June 30. Go to http://www.gta-west.com/reports.html and scroll down to the bottom for the new reports.
The draft Transportation Development Study for the Niagara-to-GTA corridor study is now available for review
and comment until Monday, June 6 at http://www.niagara-gta.com/reports.html. The following elements are
included:
1. Optimizing the existing transportation network and expanding transportation demand management (TDM).
2. Improving non-road infrastructure …
The Ministry of Transportation is updating the Province’s Transit-Supportive Guidelines. The draft Guidelines provide municipalities with ideas, tools and best practices to consider transportation and land use planning simultaneously in order to develop more transit-supportive communities.
Visit www.ebr.gov.on.ca and enter …
