This region sponsored project stands to jeopardize
the safety of some 900 elementary children who attend Grapeview and Mother
Teresa just 200-300m away. This interchange is unprecedented in Ontario.
The Region gives five
examples of schools within 500 meters of
an interchange. The Grapeview neighbourhood is unique because it has two
schools — Grapeview and Mother Teresa elementary schools — within 200 meters of each other.
Why is a massive project being
rammed into a quiet residential community when there are other viable
options?
The Ministry of Transportation
did expropriate/ purchase land for this interchange back in the 1970's and
1980's, but the city allowed the neighbourhood to grow...houses along Third
Avenue in the 80's and 90's, Jubilee Fellowship church in 1991 and Mother
Teresa School opened its doors in September 2005!
Yet land on Videl Court sold
to a developer in 2007! How is that possible? Perhaps it’s time to look at who
owns the required property along the proposed projects route?
Why are the tax payers of Niagara being asked to
pay for this project? Why should tax payers in Fort Erie, Welland, Niagara
Falls, Grimsby, Thorold, Niagara-on-the-Lake as well as St. Catharines subsidize land developers?
Make your voice heard by the politicians, email stop406interchange@gmail.com to
sign our as well as our change.org petition
at http://bit.ly/KeepOurKidsSafePetition.
Even our pre-eminent Rankin
Construction CEO Tom Rankin, with his
extensive experience in traffic engineering called
the Region's plan for a new interchange at Third Avenue ‘the wrong plan’. He
said a ‘cardinal rule of development’ is not to run a highway into a
residential area.
Should the region ask Mr. Rankin for
his credentials as an engineer?
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