Latest Council Border Resolution

Remember that Windsor Council meeting in the Town of Tecumseh. Council passed a Resolution at it but even for some of us in attendance, it was not very clear what was passed. In fact, some of the Councillors had trouble at the time too it seemed. Here is what Administration tells me is the Resolution:

• Attached is the resolution passed unanimously by City Council at its meeting held on March 23, 2006:
  
  That City Council, in response to the DRICP Area of Continued Analysis,
  
  ENDORSES the Schwartz/Estrin Proposal, which includes
  -tunneling under Talbot Road from Highway 401 to Todd Lane, with a full environmental assessment in terms of all alternatives west of Huron Church Road,
  -removal of international truck traffic off of city streets, including Huron Church Road and E.C. Row Expressway,
  -and the location of a border crossing in the Brighton Beach area, south of Prospect;
  
  and further,
  
  That this process continue with the full involvement of the citizens of Windsor.
  
  Carried.

Just a few small comments:

1. I see that Mr. Estrin's name is now part of the proposal. Clearly that is supposed to mean litigation to scare everyone. I wonder if Councillors have bought into spending millions because Eddie is piqued. I hope we will learn one day soon how much the fees have cost us to date
2. Clearly there is no nerve for them to talk about going through the Ojibway nature reserve as before
3. It appears that Council has finally agreed that Talbot Road is the preferred corridor. If no tunnel goes in, well too bad for the residents there now!
4. Of course, no one thought about excluding "local" international trucks from the prohibition about using City streets or E C Row. Not only the meeting but the Resolution was hurried and with mistakes
5. While politically the border crossing plays well over here, I wonder if any consideration was given to the residents of Delray. I forgot, we only have to worry about Sandwich. We will let Kwame and his Council worry about Delray
6. I am glad to see that "in camera secrecy" is over and we are now going to have "open and transparent" border involvement. If you believe that, then I have some land for sale for a border crossing in Propsect.
7. If you think this is the City's final position, it is not. It is a Resolution merely in response to DRICP. Don't you just love the word games. If something else comes along, they are free to change again, just as they are doing now from the earlier Schwartz position.