The Record May 10, 2012 CAMBRIDGE — Two months to go before trains won’t back up traffic every day on Hespeler Road in Cambridge. Middle July remains the target to open the first phase of a $25-million bridge over the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks immediately north of the busy Delta intersection. Work started a Read More...

The Record, Terry Pender May 10, 2012 KITCHENER — Mike Boos rides a bicycle every day, summer and winter, and has long complained about the disconnected and incomplete system of trails and pathways in this city. So Boos is pleased Kitchener councillors are unanimously supporting a new master plan for multi-use pathways and Read More...

April 30, 2012, The Record -  WATERLOO REGION — Regional council can start spending big on rail transit, after getting the green light from senior governments. After completing reviews of the project, the federal and provincial governments have agreed in principle to share costs incurred after April 1. Senior governments have pledged up Read More...

April 26, 2012, 570 News - American Airlines is bringing Chicago service to the Region of Waterloo International Airport. Flights are set to begin on June 14th and will operate through the American Airlines subsidiary, American Eagle. There will be two round trip flights daily from Sunday to Friday and one Read More...

April 25, 2012, The Record -  WATERLOO REGION — Efforts to slow the pace of suburban sprawl and intensify land use in Kitchener and Waterloo are paying off. Statistics Canada now says the Twin Cities are among the most densely populated in the country outside of the big cities. Details on urban Read More...

April 24, 2012, The Record - WATERLOO REGION — The $818-million rapid transit system that will run along the urban spine of three local cities can be quickly accessed by the overwhelming majority of people in the region by walking or cycling, says a New York City transit planner. David Fields, Read More...

April 23, 2012, 570 News -  The document that will guide the City of Waterloo over the next two decades continues to be discussed at council. Imagining what Waterloo could look like by 2031, the city's Policy Planner, Janice Mitchell told 570 News this official plan is "a little bit different," Read More...

April 23, 2012, The Record -  WATERLOO — Sam Quarrey, 18, worked on his skateboard moves in the middle of Waterloo Public Square in the Tuesday sunshine. And when the Wilfrid Laurier University student takes a break from Ollies, he can flip out his android phone and check his Facebook account. For Read More...

April 21, 2012, The Record In last Saturday’s Record, columnist Jeff Outhit was critical of the decision by Dallas-based American Eagle to commence daily flight service from the Region of Waterloo International Airport to Chicago starting in June . (‘Struggling’ U.S. airline gets berth at Waterloo) His references to Saturday Night Live Read More...

April 11, 2012, The Record - It’s as if we’re getting ready to host a fabulous wedding. The corner of Victoria and King streets, where a new transit hub will be built, is half-ready, with the strikingly beautiful Kaufman Lofts condo building evoking our industrial past on one corner, and the Read More...

April 6, 2012, The Record - KITCHENER — Winston Lewis expertly chops fresh rosemary on the prep table in his commercial kitchen, talking about what the light-rail trains will bring to this post-industrial neighbourhood when they start rolling five years from now. “I think this neighbourhood is a killer neighbourhood,” Lewis Read More...

April 6, 2012, The Record -  KITCHENER — Abandoned homes and old factories can be replaced with an NHL arena, a hotel, supermarket, pedestrian promenade, stores, cafés, restaurants, various types of housing, an arts district, community gardens and a waterside park. Urban-design students at the University of Waterloo have lots of ideas Read More...

April 2, 2012, The Globe and Mail -  Before they purchased a hulking former leathery tannery in Kitchener – a symbol of disappearing traditional Ontario jobs in the city’s core – two Toronto-based developers asked to meet with this city’s planners. When they arrived, Cadan Inc. partners Lana Sherman and Gary Maister Read More...

March 9, 2012, The Record -  KITCHENER — Waterloo Region’s sleek new courthouse is an airy space of glass and light, but its appearance is deceiving: the building is practically indestructible. The seven-storey building, at Frederick and Scott streets in downtown Kitchener, boasts state-of-the-art security features that should satisfy any judge. The 420,000-square-foot Read More...

February 14, 2012,  The Record  - KITCHENER — Building a multi-use pathway for more than two kilometres beside the Waterloo spur line is now the region’s top priority for off-road trail development. Detailed planning will be completed this year on the trail that will run from Regina Street in Waterloo to Wilhelm Read More...

February 2, 2012, Cambridge Times -  A private, U.S.-based company is investing $30 million to convert the former Fasco Motors building on Conestoga Boulevard to a single-stream recycling plant that will accept industrial and commercial waste. When completed, the newly renovated 126,000-square-foot facility will produce 80 full-time positions, ranging from drivers and Read More...

 January 11, 2012, - The Record -  WATERLOO REGION — If fast trains are ever built, make sure they stop here, local politicians plead. Regional councillors are dismayed that Waterloo Region has been left off a proposed route for high-speed rail between Ontario and Quebec. They complained this week to senior governments, Read More...

 December 22, 2011, The Record -  WATERLOO REGION — GO Transit will expand its bus service beginning Dec. 31 with the implementation of Route 30 — a GO Bus linking Kitchener and Bramalea GO Stations. The new, eastbound bus trip will depart Kitchener at 7:55 a.m. and run express to the Bramalea Read More...

 December 19, 2011, The Record -  KITCHENER — Passengers were in a festive mood when the first-ever GO train left Kitchener Dec. 19, heading to Union Station in Toronto. Here’s how it went. 5:45 a.m. Maggie Dempster waits on the platform. She’s returning to her Toronto home and job after visiting family Read More...

 December 16, 2011, The Record The Region of Waterloo International Airport is about to take off again. Starting in June, it will be serviced by daily flights to and from Chicago. This arrangement is good news for the airport as well as for local businesses and general passengers who will have easier Read More...

December 13, 2011, 570 News - American Eagle Airlines will join the fold in June Another airline will soon be flying in and out of the Region of Waterloo International Airport. Officials from the Region and the airport are holding a news conference this morning at ten where they will officially announce Read More...

December 12, 2011, The Record - When Grant Cleary was growing up in Hespeler, and later studying physics at the University of Waterloo, he turned his nose up at Cambridge. “It was: ‘there is nothing, nothing here,’ ” he said. Now, he and two other 22-year-old Jacob Hespeler Secondary School graduates Read More...

 December 9, 2011, National Post -  Peter Shawn Taylor complains that the Region of Waterloo has decided to move forward with a light rail transit (LRT) project on the basis of the multiple account evaluation (MAE) approach. ("Slapping lipstick on a money-losing pig," Nov. 9.) We disagree strongly with Mr. Taylor's analysis Read More...

December 7, 2011  The Record -  WATERLOO REGION — Bureaucrats planning rail transit want to find a private firm to operate the $818-million system that launches in 2017. Rapid transit director Nancy Button proposed Tuesday that council own the transit system and set standards and fares. A private partner would design, build, Read More...