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:
“Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eyes.”
—Pierre Simon De Laplace (1749–1827)
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become “Golems,” they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)