Building Highway 412 is a…

Building Highway 412 is a pointless waste of money.

Countless studies have shown that adding more road capacity increases vehicle usage such that it will be congested as soon as it opens. At the same time, it will encourage further sprawl of the GTHA, thus damaging the Green Belt for future generations.

Rather than spending the billions on Highway 412, I would suggest these funds be used to reduce the toll charges on Highway 407 to increase its usage and to invest in better transit to give people alternatives to using personal vehicles.