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