The Bradford Bypass must go…

The Bradford Bypass must go through a proper federal impact assessment. The 400-series highway would go through our Holland Marsh wetland and we must protect our green spaces!

While Ontarians need affordable housing, urban sprawl into sensitive habitats actually hurts both important goals towards affordable housing and safeguarding Ontario’s sensitive ecosystems.

Building new homes outside of city boundaries requires new vast investments to build new infrastructure, including roads, transmission lines, and new transit to connect to these new urban areas. Roads fragment green spaces, and harm biodiversity by isolating populations of flora and fauna from successfully migrating and breeding.

Meanwhile, existing urban boundaries still contain 350 square kilometers that could be developed for affordable homes which would have less of an impact, and which would be closer to existing transit (Carranco).

It just makes more sense to make use of the existing 350 square km rather than develop our vulnerable green spaces.