Talk:Red Hill Valley Parkway
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See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nhl4hamilton (talk • contribs) 05:32, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Name
The Red Hill expressway has been in the hopper for more than 50 years, but it took a group of city councillors less than half an hour to pick a formal name for it.
And the name is -- drum roll, please.
The Red Hill Valley Parkway.
Despite fierce lobbying by citizens who want the controversial road named after former mayor Jack MacDonald, the group tasked with coming up with a title voted 4-1 for that more or less obvious choice.
(Hamilton Spectator, 4 May 2005)
[edit] POV
I found this article to be too biased in favour of the construction, which has been a major, well-publicized controversy. I have made a relatively minor change in order to provide some more balance. --Spmarshall42 18:55, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] removed stuff on Freeman Interchange
Yes, this new highway will be taking all the east-west traffic out of the freeman interchange (and diverting in through the east end and the mountain, thus finally proving the DiIanni city council to have been idiots - just wait and see). But the RHVP is not "needed" because of any supposed deficiency in the Freeman Interchange. The capacity of the Freeman ramps was determined by MTO without any assumption that RHVP would be completed, and with current data - and if MTO thought the RHVP was needed to reduce congestion on their highways, they would have paid for the RHVP and would own it.
I know about Freeman Interchange because I was out there before it was open to traffic, inspecting the bridges.
Just putting in my own 2 cents, here, since I know how MTO works and have worked on a lot of the highways around here. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 01:05, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
