Peel, York join forces on gridlock

With Highway 10 being built to the west, the 427 soon to be built to east and a finalized bypass going right through the middle of Bolton, concrete and cars will soon protect Caledon. Who needs a greenbelt? Who needs the real thing when we have a hybrid car, Bullfrog Power and a TVO green stamp?

As taxpaying citizens of this bedroom community, we all have the right the drive to work and back every day and shield ourselves from the intrusion of public transit and "them." What we fail to realize, secluded in our bubbles, is our shortsightedness. Roads are just a sinkhole of money and as areas get richer, transportation woes get worse. The old thought that more roads relieve the gridlock has been proven time and time again to be only a temporary solution to congestion. It's every citizen's responsibility to reduce the amount of cars on the road.

In the mean time, we can only hope for some carpool, bicycle and transit lanes wherever possible for these new roads, as we wouldn't want all of Caledon's green rhetoric to go into the recycle bin.

I think it's time to move to Perth, "The Prettiest Town in Ontario." At least there they know their label is superficial. Too bad the only way out of here is by car.

Vanessa Butterworth

Bolton