Citizens Opposed to Paving the Escarpment (COPE) is a grass roots non-profit citizens organization dedicated to:

  • Preserving the Niagara Escarpment

  • Ensuring that no new highway corridors are paved across the Niagara Escarpment

  • Ensuring that all viable alternatives to the proposed Mid-Peninsula Highway
    are fully considered

News Flash

June 2010:  The Niagara highway route has been quashed but the threat to Flamborough, Burlington and the Niagara Escarpment is very much alive.   The Ministry of Transportation has brought back the original Mid-Peninsula Highway Option “C”.  It would pave a new highway from the 403 around Ancaster to the 407 in Burlinton.  This option wasn’t acceptable in 2001 and isn’t acceptable now.

In the News

July 2, 2010
Possibility of a new highway concerns city residents - Burlington Post - Kim Arnott

July 2, 2010
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A highway...by any other name - Flamborough Review

June 30, 2010
New road route on table - Flamborough Review - Andrew Baulcomb

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What’s Old is New Again

In June 2010, the NGTA corridor team identified this area for a future highway corridor.  It cuts through the heart of Flamborough and crosses the escarpment in Burlington on the way to meet highway 407.


COPE's letter to Premier McGuinty outlining concerns with the NGTA corridor process.
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The City of Hamilton and Niagara Region commissioned a $200,000 economic report of the NGTA corridor. Additional Information:

COPEs comments on the Niagara GTA Corridor PIC # 3.

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NGTA Alternatives 4-3 and 4-4 (June 2010)
look very much like the old MPH: Options "F" and "C"

 Alternative 4-3 (pdf) | Alternative 4-4 (pdf)

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NEW  Alternative 4-3 (pdf)
NEW  Alternative 4-4 (pdf)

OLD MPH MAP click for larger version of map

NEW MAP click for larger version of map

Your comments are needed on the new Plan.
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NIAGARA TO GTA CORRIDOR

PLACES TO GROW

GREENBELT PROTECTION ACT

February 24, 2005 News Release:
Protection of Key Lands in the Golden Horseshoe Now Law

COPE's Latest Newsletter

COPE to remain vigilant during new review of mid-pen corridor -

ROBERT BATEMEN SUPPORTS COPE
Mr. Batemen, honourary Chair of COPE, says proposed highway is a "Horror Story"

DAVID SUZUKI SPEAKS OUT ABOUT THE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT
Learn more about how Mr. Suzuki feels about protecting the Niagara Escarpment

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The COPE website was updated January 21, 2010
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