4 Friday, December 3, 2021brooklintowncrier.com Last summer the Town of Whitby employed an online approach to receiving community feedback about the highway 7/12 alternative route due to Covid restrictions. In August and September, this newspaper printed opinion articles from councillors, the Mayor, and residents expressing their views on the on-going debate about where the road should/ should not go and why. Subsequently, the town published a summary of the feedback it received through a variety of communication channels. This included survey results as well as a list of questions posed during a July 22 webinar attended by 120 individuals at which over 160 questions were posed. From the Community Open House #3 Summary Report: In general, the online survey results were split evenly between those who support the Technically Preferred Corridor (Alternative A) and those who did not support the recommendations. As an example, Table 1 below shows the results for the question that asked: "Please read the following statement below and Open House Summary Re Highway 7/12 Alternate Route Community Open House No.3 Online Survey Results Options Results Strongly Agree 108 (35%) Somewhat Agree 34 (11%) Neither 9 (3%) Somewhat Disagree 7 (2%) Strongly Disagree 149 (49%) rate it on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree): I support the Technically Preferred Corridor (Alternative A, Townline Road/Lake Ridge Road) as the best alternative route for the Highway 7/12 Highway." Continued on page 5