{"id":12951,"date":"2015-12-21T18:24:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=12951"},"modified":"2015-12-21T18:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:24:36","slug":"aurora-can-gain-in-transportation-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-can-gain-in-transportation-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora can gain in transportation talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shortened Environmental Assessment process makes early submissions very necessary.<br \/>\nThere is a lot in this for Aurora. Premier Wynne talks about \u201cdecarbonizing\u201d transportation and that is commendable, but that can only happen if we are given inviting alternatives: to get our butts out of the cars.<br \/>\nHighland Gate represents one of those huge opportunities that is still in limbo; the rail line widening is yet another one. Just like with the Leslie Street and St John\u2019s Sideroad widenings, these major projects are the low-cost chances to make real progress &#8211; on the ground!<br \/>\nAnd we are fortunate to have the formal planning in place, in the Aurora Trails Master Plan.<br \/>\nSo with Premier Wynne solidly advocating from the upper level of government, and Aurora from the lower level, how can Metrolinx say no?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Klaus Wehrenberg<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortened Environmental Assessment process makes early submissions very necessary. There is a lot in this for Aurora. Premier Wynne talks about \u201cdecarbonizing\u201d transportation and that is commendable, but that can only happen if we are given inviting alternatives: to get our butts out of the cars. Highland Gate represents one of those huge opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}