Renfrew County’s mayors and reeves are expected to vote this week to put the brakes on the federal government’s high-speed rail project.
County council will vote Wednesday on a motion from the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC) that calls on the government and ALTO, the Crown corporation created to build the high-speed rail connection between Toronto and Quebec City, to “fully explore train route options along existing infrastructure corridors, such as VIA Rail and/or Highway 401.”
The motion notes that EOWC “formally opposes the ALTO project in its current form.”
EOWC says its opposition is “based on concerns related to insufficient municipal consultation, unclear rural and small-urban impacts, potential environmental effects, and alignments with existing eastern Ontario planning and infrastructure priorities.”
The motion notes that “portions of the proposed project will traverse and impact eastern Ontario communities, infrastructure, residential and agricultural lands, municipal trails, and environmentally sensitive areas… with no long-term economic benefits” to the region…
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