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Re: 'MPP steps up lobby for rail link stops in Weston,' News, Dec. 19

It strikes me as being a bit odd that another environmental Assessment (EA) is being requested for this long overdue connection to the airport. Wasn't one completed under the previous or older EA system? And, wasn't it the province that shortened the old assessment system to about six months, in order to prevent unnecessary and irrelevant items that could be used as a stalling tactic to transit projects that certain people or groups didn't want? Sad to say, but the rail link is unnecessarily going through the same sort of nonsense the St. Clair streetcar right of way went through. I believe Mr. Sullivan when he says that he has been struggling with this issue for over four years - so have the people who need a first class connection to the airport as many other North American cities already enjoy. But not here, oh no, we have to study things to death. Almost to the point of doubling the original cost estimates that will have to be carried by the rest of us. We don't need another paralleling transit line to the airport, Go and the TTC already provide this service. This was supposed to be an express service, not another local make all stops route. However, it seems that this point has been lost. Enough already. The shovels should have been in the ground three years ago, but here we are still wanting yet another assessment.

Mr. Sullivan goes on to say things like diesel locomotives are the direct cause of all sorts of pollution in Weston. Well, Mike, what about the thousands of trucks, buses and automobiles that pass through the Weston and Lawrence intersection alone each day? I suppose that they don't contribute any pollution worth mentioning? No more delays. You will get your stop and the line will some day be electrically powered, that is if you don't stop these delaying tactics now.

Remember, common sense eventually won out on the St. Clair debate. Don't believe me, go down and look for yourself.

D. Barrett