Mid-Peninsula Highway

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The Mid-Peninsula Highway or Mid-Peninsula Bypass is a proposed freeway across the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario, Canada that would serve as an alternate route to the Queen Elizabeth Way.

The Mid-Peninsula Highway has been part of Ontario Ministry of Transportation planning since as far back as the 1950s, but was resurrected in the early 1990s to relieve traffic congestion along the Queen Elizabeth Way, which runs through tender fruitlands and is not well-suited to expansion beyond its current configuration. The governments of Premier Mike Harris and Ernie Eves planned to fast-track the highway's construction, with a completion date in 2008-2012. The project has been continually delayed by the Dalton McGuinty government, even as far as to totally re-initiate the environmental assessment that was already completed by the previous governments. Plans have also been stalled due to the reluctance of private owners to sell the land needed for the freeway.

No designation has been planned yet, although most expect it to be designed as Highway 408,^{[citation needed]} as it is the lowest 400-series number not in use and roughly parallels Highway 8 (parts of it has been downloaded to the regional governments of Hamilton and Niagara) for much of the route.

The QEW-Highway 420 interchange has been once considered as the eastern terminus of the route, however this has likely been dropped in favour of a route to Fort Erie.

The route will most likely begin at Peace Bridge or its planned twin bridge in Fort Erie. It will then head west across the peninsula, crossing the Welland Canal and passing south of Hamilton to connect to Highway 403. Later, it is likely that it will either connect with Highway 407 on the northern edge of Burlington. It is expected that the City of Hamilton will extend the Red Hill Valley Parkway south to connect with the Mid-Peninsula Highway in Stoney Creek, and that an extension to Highway 401 in Milton will form the first leg of the GTA East-West Corridor. ^[1]

[edit] References

1. ↑  Niagara Peninsula Needs Assessment Review

[edit] External links

• Niagara to GTA corridor Environmental Assessment Terms of Reference

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