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Ah yes ... that was also in today's Toronto Star on the front page of the GTA section.
I thought that was pretty rich coming from Halton, where they don't even run any local transit in Georgetown - but are whining that GO is delaying full-day service on the Kitchener line west of Brampton.
You make a good point...but the spirit of the idea of just saying "no" to mandated growth i think is growing in the populace out there.
Read any of the local papers and it won't be very long before you are confronted with letters/editorials/stories about the problems that growth is generating and the costs associated with growth.
I can't speak to the issues in Halton, specifically, but I know it is a massive problem/issue in Brampton.......we are gonna be 600k people before too long and we can't get all day GO service? and if we can't, can we not get a bit more highway lane space? we can't get more than 550 hospital beds? we can't get a post secondary education institution?
The issues of growth are causing real civic issues in these places and the solutions seem to lie at the Provincial level....and people are probably tired of me harping on about the amount of money spent on GTS but still it only bringing 5 additional return GO train trips a weekday? When I read this article and see GO responding that the Milton line can't get more service until considerable expansion dollars are spent I am reminded of the responses I used to get when I asked about more service on the (then) Georgetown line.....now the money is spent, the service is still not coming.
The same, no local transit argument does not wash in Brampton, surely?
Halton are simply pointing out that the infrastructure is stretched....yet the people with the solutions can only offer excuses while, at the same time, mandating more growth. I think all they are saying is, if the province can't solve the infrastructure problem then fine.....stop mandating growth that just makes the issue more critical......and I have a hard time faulting that.