c/o Ann Slater,
Tuesday, May 19, 2009-05-19
To: Ms Brenda Jamieson, P. Eng.,
Consultant Project Manager
AECOM,
300 Water Street,
Whitby, ON,
L1N-9J2
Mr. Charles Organ, C.E.T.,
Project Manager
Ministry of Transportation, West Region
Planning and Design Section
659 Exeter Road,
London, ON
N6E-1L3
Re: (PIC)#2C Stratford Area Highway 7&8 Transportation Corridor Planning and Class EA Study
Perth-Oxford Local, National Farmers Union has already commented on proposed changes to the Highway 7 and 8 corridor in the Stratford area. None of our previously expressed concerns appear to have been addressed in (PIC)#2C. We continue to press for increased public transportation to reduce traffic on our roads and highways. Increased public transportation that reduces road traffic will preserve prime farm land and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
(PIC)#2C also presents additional concerns for farmers in our area. The proposed new road that angles from 7&8 to Perth Line 33, Lorne Ave., east of Stratford will cut through more than 1000 acres of prime farm land. Farmers in the effected area will lose access to parts of their farms. Other farmers outside the directly effected area who need to move machinery north and south across the corridor will be severely inconvenienced also.
On the west side of Stratford the (PIC)#2C diagram shows the proposed corridor following existing roads. However we wonder if wide, high speed curves will be placed at the corners of Perth Line 32 and Perth Road 125, and also at Perth Road 125 and Highway 8. Such curves would result in considerable loss of access to farm lands and likely destruction of buildings as well.
We request a clear undertaking that (PIC)#2C does not actually include those sort of curves west of Stratford.
Ann Slater, Secretary Perth-Oxford Local, NFU
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