Action Steps

1. Support Responsible Planning and Spending on the Bradford Bypass by signing our petition!

2: Support Municipal Action by Calling Your Councillor

KEEP GOING! If you’re a resident of the Lake Simcoe watershed please contact your councillor in the fall of 2023 to ask them to pass a resolution to support better planning and justification of the Bradford Bypass. Read this letter to municipalities and then write or call your Councillor to ask them to support the motion.  Use our Council contact list to find your local councillor. 

Read: Our press release – “Environmentalists urge province to reveal health impact of Bypass”

The Issue

The province of Ontario is recklessly putting the cart before the horse by starting to build the Bradford Bypass before necessary research and planning have been completed.

They are building a bridge at Yonge St. north of Bradford in the fall of 2022 without committing to manage:

• • Impacts on human health, climate change, or Lake Simcoe;

• • The cumulative effects of the loss of fish habitat over the entire project;

• • Salt pollution in Lake Simcoe: In 37 years, Lake Simcoe could reach the chronic guideline level of salinity. A salt-spewing highway will hasten this change;  

• • Current and future local traffic congestion;

• • There is also no budget and no complete engineered drawings of the highway.

This is no way to protect Lake Simcoe and its fish!

Highway 413 & Bradford Bypass Explainer by The Narwhal

This summer our awesome Federal Summer Student and volunteers went around the areas where wells are likely to be affected by the Bradford Bypass with this postcard: