416 interchange: Barrhaven residents praise announcement [Video]

Barrhaven residents are relieved that the provincial government is promising to fund a new highway interchange at the 416 and Barnsdale Road.

“In the past few years, the last dozen years, traffic has been extraordinarily painful,” says Muhamed Karkari, chair of the Half Moon Bay Community Association. “We’ve had pinpoints all across the entire community. And the fact of the matter is that getting in and out of our community is getting worse and worse every month, not just every year, every month.”

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Karkari says a source of traffic is not enough access points to Highway 416, forcing many to drive through the community, blocking roads. He calls the interchange announcement “critical.” He says, “We have been fighting for this for years and years. Always holding on hope that this would happen. And we are …