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LETTER: Bradford Bypass needed to accommodate growing community

'What do they think millions more people and vehicles will bring if we don't improve the infrastructure?' asks reader
2022-01-13-Bradford Bypass Map
A map of the proposed route for the Bradford Bypass.

BradfordToday received the following letter from Colin Tanner regarding the Bradford Bypass petition article posted last week on Village Media 
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People are once again beating the drums of discontent about 'progress'; and in this case, are so far off the mark it's laughable. They claim all kinds of dire consequences from added traffic without coming to grips with a couple of actual facts:

1. Our federal government (in their so-called wisdom) is going to welcome millions more people to Canada over the next two decades, all wanting jobs and most needing transportation. 

2. Our federal government (with great hope) is mandating the conversion of (most) vehicular traffic to non-carbon over the next two decades, thus cleaning the air and our consciences. 

If people think the traffic gridlock around Toronto (the GTA) is bad now, what do they think millions more people and vehicles will bring if we don't improve the infrastructure?

Personally, getting off oil where it's economically viable is okay with me as long as I have heat and hydro, adding millions more people is as stupid a thing as could be conceived.

Colin Tanner, 

Victoria Harbour