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This whole thing pisses me off. i'm not against expansion as it inevitable. What pisses me off is the complete lack of planning and infrastructure. TOM/ Halton knows that there's a big subdivision going up but they don't do anything to increase the roads in and out of town. They get around to building it after the traffic is already horrible and to add, the construction shuts down a lane or 2 which makes it even worse.
I cannot believe that our trusted elected officials is that dumb that they cannot foresee the traffic congestion that's going to happen with the new subdivisions going up.
They should build the infrastructure first and then build the subdivisions or build them in conjunction with each other. They know where the new houses are going so why not build the roads first?!?!? freakin dumb!!!
You can't suck and blow at the same time! The same group of people voicing displeasure with the gridlock will be the same ones to complain about the smallest rise in their property taxes!
To your point, any idiot can "foresee the traffic congestion" when new builds happen, and in a perfect world the roads would magically widen. But at whose expense?
I'd be pissed if my property taxes doubled so that they could widen a road that seems adequate right now, because there will be 100 or 1,000 new homes going up soon and that same road will go from being busy to gridlocked! My taxes go up because there will soon be new Milton residents??? That is something that I would have a problem with!
The Town could go into debt and borrow the funds to widen the roads, but guess who pays the debt charge? Me, again. Forget that!
In my opinion, our elected officials have shown both fiscal and common sense by paying for the infrastructure costs from the builders development fees, rather than burdening existing Miltonians with expenses incurred to support future residents!
If I need someone to blame, I'd look at the elected officials in Queens Park and their "Places to Grow" legislation. Not a penny of provincial money comes into a region that is mandated to build houses...and now multi-unit buildings!
Sound fiscal reasoning is being shown by the Town of Milton, but the same can't be said for the provincial geniuses!