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Ontario’s planned highways will cost $80 billion, pollute our air, and make traffic worse. Here’s how we can invest that money in public transit instead.
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Protecting Ontario’s Environment
Highway 413 is a proposed mega-project that would fuel more urban sprawl, put more greenhouse gas pollution in our atmosphere, cut through the Greenbelt, destroy fertile farmland and pave over important species habitat, pushing threatened species even closer to the brink.
Climate change
About The Report: We wanted to get a sense of the impact Highway 413 could have on climate change and air pollution, so we hired a transportation modelling team to add up how much pollution, and how much sprawl Ontarians could be facing if Highway 413 is built. The evidence shows that by adding hundreds...
Protecting Ontario’s Environment
About The Report: The Ontario government proposes to build a new highway in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), from Highway 401, near Milton in the west, to Highway 400, near Kleinberg, in the east. The project should be cancelled. The highway would cause significant negative impacts on the environment and on local communities. It would...
Protecting Ontario’s Environment
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS The Humber River, Etobicoke Creek, and Credit River watersheds currently have a lower amount of forest and wetland areas than recommended by federal guidelines. Highway 413 would cut through many of the remaining natural areas of all three watersheds, impacting ecological functionality and preventing them from reaching federally recommended natural cover goals. Highway...
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