Future
The original intention of the Markham Bypass was to link to Highway 401 via the Morningside Avenue extension. York Region wished for the connection between the bypass and Morningside to be continuous, meeting Steeles Avenue west of its intersection with Ninth Line. However, Toronto has thus far resisted the pressure from York Region to utilize the continuous alignment, citing the environmental effects that will come of two new crossings over the Rouge River. As such, a discontinuous alignment is likely, with Donald Cousens Parkway ending at the current Steeles Avenue / Ninth Line intersection, the two lane Steeles being widened to six west of that point, and Morningside meeting Steeles immediately east of Eastvale Drive. Plans to push Donald Cousens Parkway north of Major Mackenzie Drive to Highway 48 appear on the York Region official plan. Construction is currently scheduled for 2016.
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Famous quotes containing the word future:
“Where have those flowers and butterflies all gone
That science may have staked the future on?
He seems to say the reason why so much
Should come to nothing must be fairly faced.....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Perfect present has no existence in our consciousness. As I said years ago in Erewhon, it lives but upon the sufferance of past and future. We are like men standing on a narrow footbridge over a railway. We can watch the future hurrying like an express train towards us, and then hurrying into the past, but in the narrow strip of present we cannot see it. Strange that that which is the most essential to our consciousness should be exactly that of which we are least definitely conscious.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one’s future must be hewn.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)