Never Mind the Number of High Rise Towers - What About the Number of Buses on the Streets.

By Pepper Parr

December 6th, 2022

BURLINGTON, ON

At the first really heavy duty Standing Committee yesterday Council listened to plans to significantly change the location on Harvester Road where aaa and Transit are currently located.

Council was presented with six options that were going to come in at a cost of $20 million – nothing was going to happen today – they were looking at a 30 year plan.

One bit of data that gave more than a clue as to the kind of growth that is going to take place was the projections for transit.

There are construction crews on several sites in the city but few will serve the needs of the average family the city is expecting to call Burlington home.

Ward 6 Councillor Angelo Bentivegna commented on the size of the agenda they had to cope with – 400 pages plus.

The agenda for the Standing Committee that meets today will deal with a 700 pages plus agenda.

The one thing that didn’t get much in the way of discussion was the size of city council – the seven member, serving six wards isn’t working all that well now and can’t be expected to work at all going forward.

That is an issue this council is going to have to give serious consideration to – that should be fun to watch.