Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown was happy to hear about the provincial government's decision to restart the environmental assessment for the GTA West Corridor, a 400 series highway that would run through Peel.

Environmental assessments for the highway, planned to run east to west between Vaughan and Halton Hills, were previously suspended by the Liberal government in 2015, but on Tuesday, Feb. 5, Transportation Minister Jeff Yurek announced the assessments would start up again.

"With a significant increase in population in (York, Peel and Halton) regions, we need to examine the long-term transportation planning requirements in the area and provide better linkages between the urban growth centres," Brown said in a statement issued on Thursday, Feb. 7. "The movement of goods and services is very important to our city and region."

The goal of the assessment is to identify and address transportation needs along the proposed corridor through York, Peel and Halton.