"...It involves the arrangement that the output of the manufacturing of one, allows for the input for another.."

Say what?

It's great that city council has approved staffs recommendation to apply for funding for Boundary Road. Does this mean Boundary Road is not conceptual anymore? Will this road really run from Eastway Esso to the Inland Kenworth property?

More pie in the sky stuff. Forty eight million for a raod from nowhere to nowhere. And the infrastrcture within the City is dying.

Cheers

This road will be a catalyst to bring further diversivication to the local economy. Bring it on fast.

$8,000,000.00

That's not bad, this road will pay for itself with the all the future property taxes generated with the development.

Or look at it as roughly costing each citizen (70,000) $115 each for the city's share.

A shortcut to the airport possibly?

No one is going to comment on how it could be used to bypass downtown?

Come on, you guys are slippin' ;)

forgot about bypassing Downtown. This will make 20th ave in front of my townhouse less traffic. I definetely surport that.

I would think this is a very good use of infrastructure dollars. Like others have said, having that road in place could indeed open up an entire new area for development.

If it doesn't get hazardous goods off 5th, Carney and First not to mention the by pass it is only piecemeal to solving our dangerous goods route.

All good comments IMO, but we are missing something. If we are planning ahead then we should be utilizing this road for a future ring-road... and a future ring-road should not have any stop lights on it.

If this road is built it should definitely have an over pass cloverleaf for the highway crossing at 97, and IMO should only have merge lanes on or off the road (even if its a two lane road), therefore no intersections... This needs to be done to keep it a through road as the land is developed around it and thus make it easier in the future to incorporate it into any real ring road infrastructure.

I hope that they are planning that far ahead, because its likely within the next decade when a ring road will be built (started), and that really isn't very far away to have to do things twice at twice the cost if they don't plan now.

Time Will Tell....

This road will help direct traffic along 1st Avenue and across the Cameron Street Bridge and up the Hart Hwy.

Should we hire a consultant to study the viability of asking other governments for money to build this road? Will money be forthcoming for a road that would be built before there is a real demand for it?
Not as long as governments use such projects as photo opportunities, and re-election booster campaigns. THis proposal shows foresight. Therefore, how can we be sure that government at any level is involved? Methinks that private interests are involved somehow (GOOD!)
metalman.

Isn't there rumours of an election comming in all levels of government (provincial is next year of so)? Perfect time for money to flow forth.

Rounder by keeping traffic travelling along First Avenue you are still impacting the downtown and making First Avenue uglier than it is now. No way to attract tourists or looking after neighbourhoods in that area. They pay the same taxes as everyone else.

Zurowski said in council chamberes that the funding is in place to do 4th Avenue, and that funding is not the reason for the holdup - so what is?

He also said in a recent globe and mail article:

"The city has been working to revitalize the downtown area"...
"...the city will push ahead in its revitalization efforts."
"...we're doing Fourth Avenue next"

It's gone from some bulbouts and light poles, with shared costs from property owners, to a $6 million plus - 2 year project, but when?

Direct "industrial traffic" along First instead of Fifth and Central (at least a majority).