End Highway Expansion

Highways don't address local transportation needs.

Highways are designed for long-distance, high-speed travel. They’re great for moving freight across the province or connecting cities hundreds of kilometres apart. But when we try to use highways to provide access to local homes and businesses, we end up driving up congestion and making travel unsafe, even deadly.

Highways are a financial liability

Highways come with massive short term costs in planning and construction, and long-term financial commitments for cities that are left with the maintenance and replacement bill.

Highways destroy financial productivity.

Highways don’t generate wealth for cities. In fact, they often destroy it. When a highway cuts through a city, it lowers the value of adjacent land, displaces residents and businesses, and fragments neighborhoods. That's not just a social cost, it’s a financial one. You lose productive land and replace it with something that doesn’t pay for itself.

New road projects are for unlocking new land for new homes and businesses. This new land is a place for new opportunities, not just a place to drive though.