A petition is being put forward to have a bypass built around the bustling community of Cookstown.
Catherine Haller, a resident of the village is looking for support to bolster her petition to have a bypass constructed. She says the back roads in the area are becoming busier and busier.
“If there was ever any chance of a bypass it has to be soon before development makes it unreasonable if not impossible,” she wrote to a number of Simcoe County mayors in August.
She wrote that note in the hopes of getting the support of Innisfil, New Tecumseth and Essa town council.
Innisfil council has agreed to support the petition and New Tecumseth is considering it. Lynn Dollan, Innisfil’s deputy mayor, has been fighting for a bypass of some kind since the mid-90s.
“We just can`t withstand this traffic and quite frankly we shouldn`t have to.”
An estimated 25,000 vehicles drive through the intersection of Highway 89 and County Road 27 every day.
Haller is now trying to drum up the support of her fellow residents.
“We want to go door-to-door through the village and get support to petition the province to put a bypass around the village.”
The goal is to get 80 per cent of the people who live in the village to sign the new petition.
