DavidH
Senior Member
There are a few existing neighbourhoods in Whitby that are located west of the planned highway corridor. Whitby's concern is that residents of these neighbourhoods would have a highway corridor between them and the rest of the town.What would the highway bisect? It's located in the rural strip between the two.
I'm not sure how this is a real issue. They already have the 401 "bisecting" the north and south ends of Whitby and seem to be living with it just fine.
Ultimately, both Ajax and Whitby seem to want the benefits of the connector highway being nearby but don't actually want it in their town. The problem with Whitby's alternative is that to move it further west would require moving it at least partially into the Ajax greenbelt, which seems very unlikely.
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