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On April 24, 2018 four members of the Brock Board of Trade attended a Transportation Roundtable in Whitby.  The purpose of this event was to all Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce in Durham Region to discuss policy recommendations to be used at the provincial and municipal level in the upcoming elections.  Below is a list of the policy recommendations put forward as a unified voice from Durham.

  • Durham Region businesses speak with a unified voice.
  • All levels of government (municipal, regional, provincial, and federal) must work together proactively to create a master inter-modal transportation infrastructure plan, which includes short-term and long-term goals, and reflects individual municipal plans in the simultaneous build out of residential and commercial developments.
  • Transportation planning should be coordinated with other significant growth plans (i.e. the Greenbelt plan, Places to Grow, conservation authority plans).
  • Transportation infrastructure planning must include cost to sustain/maintain the planned build-out.
  • Priority must be given to further expanding and investing in our assets, including Highways 401, 404, the Oshawa Executive Airport, the Pickering Airport Lands, and the Port of Oshawa.
  • Durham Region has invested in the expansion of Taunton Road westward. Toronto and York Region must complete the expansion of Steeles Avenue to allow for the smooth flow of people and goods along this important artery, especially in light of the completion of the first phase of the large Seaton community.
  • Durham Region reminds the provincial government that Durham Region’s transportation needs are growing and infrastructure funding must keep pace with that growth
  • The province should be fair and equitable in the tolling of users in the GTA. Residents and industry in the east end of the GTA should not be required to pay for tolls on north/south roads when the west end of the GTA does not.

 

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