COOTES MEDIA Don't put your pedal to the metal on Cootes
Kevin Werner, Dundas Star News (April 20, 2007) read moreNew MP Sweet on national park idea for Cootes
By Craig Campbell, Dundas Star News (April 28, 2006)
New politician, same good idea (if we get rid of the road) read moreCootes Drive fatality confirms worst fears
By Susan Clairmont, The Hamilton Spectator (Feb 15, 2006)
Tragedy at McMaster Cootes crossing. read moreNational Park status is being considered for Cootes Paradise
By Craig Campbell, Dundas Star (March 11, 2005)
The big picture on the National Park rumblings...read morePleasant View greenbelt designation prohibits residential subdivisions
By Craig Campbell, Dundas Star (March 4, 2005)
Cootes Paradise as National Park? Get rid of Cootes Drive and it starts to make more sense. read moreSigns 'good' for creek, marsh after spill: 3,000 litres of gasoline washed through sewers following accident at Mountain gas station
By Paul Legall, Hamilton Spectator, (March 2004)
3,000 litres of gas spill into the marsh from an Esso Tanker...Good!? read moreUndoing Environmental Damage
By Penn Whithers, REBEL Zine (February 2004)
Reduce, Reuse and Recyle. Walk or use public transport when you can. Plant trees. Tear down a highway. Tear down a highway??!! read moreResearch demonstrates ‘viability, necessity’ of closing Cootes
By Craig Campbell, Dundas Star News (July, 2003)
Drivers would accept the closure of Cootes Drive, a main access into Dundas, because the road poses a serious threat to an endangered turtle species, says a third-year McMaster student. read moreCootes: Drive Through Paradise?
By Randy Kay, Pirgspectives (Spring 2003)
Back when Cootes Drive was constructed, it was cutting edge. 60 years later we need to re-examine the need for the road and look toward what might be rescued from beneath the asphalt. read moreNew group forming to 'restore Cootes'
By Craig Campbell, Dundas Star News (August 2001)
Imagine Cootes Drive - the four lane access between West Hamilton and Dundas - completely torn up and replaced by the natural marsh land that was there over fifty years ago. read more
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Our lives and landscape have been fashioned to the automobile's dictates for three-quarters of a century. A rescue movement is in order. Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation Have your group endorse RESTORE COOTES
Contact RESTORE COOTES at ap951@hwcn.org or call 905.627.2696. Write to Restore Cootes, Box 19, 1280 Main Street West Hamilton ON L8S 1C0
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