Mr. Cerasa’s letter to the editor on new transportation corridors got me thinking. Our Transportation Master Plan is to be our vision for the next 30 to 50 years. Who is responsible for this? Is our mayor, deputy mayor and council, our residents, our administration or the consultants who prepared the plan? It can’t be the consultants because at their presentation, they basically told us that their focus was realigned to concentrate on Amherstburg proper and traffic calming activities in the core.
To Mr. Cerasa’s point, I have a suggestion for a transportation corridor. What about Texas Road? Hear me out. Our water master plan tells us that McGregor needs a new water service. The recommended route for this new water main is out Texas Road.
We are currently working with a consultant on our wastewater master plan as well as an environmental study on our sewage lagoons in McGregor. Since our current sewage treatment plant is running around 40 per cent capacity, they may discover that the overall best option for Amherstburg is to have waste brought from McGregor to town through a force main and this could possibly travel on Texas Road.
I believe there are plans for four new subdivisions to connect with Texas Road and some of this traffic would definitely use this east-west corridor.
Huge plans exist for the old Allied Chemical lands that could use the 2nd Concession as a route and this too would dump onto Texas Road.
Our greenhouse industry is expanding and this will require Texas Road to be improved sometime in the future.
Any upgraded transportation corridor would serve our community well into the future. We need a transportation master plan that supports the next 50 years and provides a vision for our entire community not just the downtown core.
—Rodger Hudson
Amherstburg
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