From the Beacon Herald's "Opinion' section:
Perth County farms are for farming, not for cars
On April 22 the Ministry of Transportation will be holding a public information meeting at the Festival Inn in Stratford from 4-8 p.m. and they are going to be there with its sales pitch that Stratford needs a new bypass around Stratford that would take local land producing local food for the local economy out of production and altering future viability of many dairy and livestock producers.
The Ministry of Transportation also has another alternative for bypassing Stratford that it will be displaying and, for the most part, uses existing roads for the bypass. This option still has many issues affecting farmers. One of the main issues is that this bypass uses existing roads on the west side of Stratford but on the east side of Stratford puts this bypass through the middle of many highly productive agricultural farms. This proposal has some merit but still needs a lot of change.
This is where we need the people of Stratford, our valuable consumers of local food, to come out to this meeting and tell the Ministry of Transportation and their consulting team that the Ministry of Transportation should work on a bypass of Stratford that concentrates on using existing roads. We need safe roads not more roads.
Coincidence or not, April 22 is also Earth Day so come make your contribution to Earth Day by keeping more local land for local consumption and by making the statement to keep our farms green.
John Van Dyk
RR 2 Tavistock
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