Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath says Chatham-Kent residents shouldn’t have to wait for the 401 to be safer.
She made the comments at a campaign stop in Chatham yesterday.
“I know that locally people are very concerned about the cross over crashes that continue to happen,” says Horwath. “There’s no way that it should have been left this long that there was no barrier whatsoever in big stretches of the 401, so we’re prepared to look at exactly that,” Horwath says.
Though she didn’t reveal a plan to install barriers, she says she has a personal opinion about the issue.
“My preference personally would be to make sure that the solution implemented doesn’t have to be a temporary solution. In other words, I believe that if we can get those concrete barriers in place, that would be the optimal solution and not having to do one thing and then another thing afterwards,” Horwath says.
She says the matter is time-sensitive.
“I do know that people want something sooner rather than later. People don’t want to wait for years and years and years as they’ve already waited, for the highway to become safer. So we’re going keep all of those things at the top of our mind, if we’re given the opportunity to solve the problems for drivers on the 401 here in the southwest,” says Horwath.
This was her second visit to Chatham in the past six days.
