By Pepper Parr
June 1st, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
The traffic snafus during the Mothers’ Day weekend weren’t even mentioned when the Chief Administrative Officer gave Council a short update on what staff have been doing.
The public certainly made their feelings known, and Mayor Meed Ward picked up on that when she sent the letter, set out, below to the Minister of Transportation.
The City had been advised that there are six additional lane closures between the date of the latter and Labour Day. Given that the city has no jurisdiction over the provincial Ministry of Transportation – the best she can do is pull in the two MPP’s ask them for support.
Items 2, 3 and 4 certainly have merit. The problem is that the MTO communications people are just plain sloppy when it comes to informing the public.
We get a message saying “leave a number and we will call you back when we do call. Email sent to the address they provided bounces.
Let’s see what comes out of the Mayor’s letter.
The Mayor should be requesting a re~visit to the Mid~Peninsula Highway proposal .If this had not been cancelled years ago by a Liberal government we would not be in this mess that will get worse and worse from now on.