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LETTER: Instead of Orbit, let's focus on developments with realistic timelines

'Our tax dollars have paid for a plan that thinks out some 70 years? Ludicrous, and simply silly,' says letter writer
2024-02-06-orbit-1
Arcadis IBI Group has released renderings of the proposed new GO Transit station planned for the 6th Line in Innisfil.

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I see that once again we are looking at the amazing, futuristic Orbit station that I will probably not see in my lifetime! I’m a senior so one might say, so what? It will come when “market conditions” allow.

And then we see a projection for orbit out to 2091! Our tax dollars have paid for a plan that thinks out some 70 years? Ludicrous, and simply silly. I remember when we moved to Innisfil 3 years ago, seeing a GO station on a local map, near 6th line and 20th. We went to see it and of course it wasn’t there. We kind of knew it wasn’t but we had to check.

It’s a sad story that plans are out there with literally no chance of coming to fruition within reasonable time lines. Sensible, practicable plans for our community, with funding requirements identified, should perhaps look out 10 or 15 years, and admit that beyond that, nobody really knows. Such plans might attract constructive comments from your stakeholders - I.e. the people who are here now!

Stuart MacPherson,

Innisfil