Liberals: Doing the job

This fall, commuters in western Mississauga will get on the GO Train at the first new GO Train station built in Mississauga in more than 25 years, at Lisgar! It was a promise made by Bob Delaney in 2003, and kept completely by the government you elected!

HOV Lans on Highway 403

In cars with two or more people, you can now skip some of the traffic gridlock on Highway 403 with the new High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes.

More capacity on GO Trains

The ten-car GO trains will become 12-car GO trains as GO Transit begins to accept new, more powerful locomotives starting this fall. All platforms on the Milton Line either have been extended, or will be extended to enable the longer trains to stop for commuters. Lisgar was designed to accommodate 12-car GO trains from the outset.

Third Track on the Milton Line

Infrastructure Ontario has allocated funds for the extensive work needed for the third track on the Milton Line needed to be able to offer all-day GO Train service. GO Transit has made it a priority project. CP Rail is on board, and they need the extra capacity for their freight business too. The June 2007 MoveOntario 2020 announcement includes this 'capacity expansion' project on the Milton Line as part of its $17.5 billion, multi-year series of projects. It will happen;

Highway upgrades

If you have to take the car, every 400-series highway in Peel Region is in the midst of amulti-year upgrade program to add capacity and remove bottlecks to traffic flow.

Tories: Slashing funding

• John and the Tories opposed the creation of the Greater Toronto Transit Authority to better integrate public transit across the GTA;
• Between 1995 and 2003, the PC government halted construction of the Eglinton Subway Line that will get cars off the 401 when completed on the Liberal watch;
• The Tories cut funding of public transit operating costs from 75 percent to zero! When they reluctantly backed down they only restored half the original funding levels;
• Just remember which party sold off the Highway 407 at a fire-sale price to be able to balance its 1999 pre-election budget: the Tories;
• Nothing at all happened to make public transit in Mississauga better on the Conservative watch between 1995 and 2003. Nothing.

NDP: Where is Mississauga?

• Voted against the Greater Toronto Transit Authority;
• Voted against the York University subway extension;
• Have no policies or ideas on transit in Mississauga at all;
• Highway 407 was constructed on the NDP watch. It should have been a public road from the outset.