A meeting between Ontario’s transportation minister, area mayors and Peel Region’s chair has offered local politicians no reassurance the province plans to get the Environmental Assessment (EA) for a GTA-West highway back on the road.

Area municipalities are eager to see groundwork for construction of a new 400-series highway ­– stretching across parts of Peel Region from York Region in the east to Halton Region in the west – continue.

Peel municipalities consider the transportation corridor a vital part of plans for future development and economic growth.

Since last December, when the government abruptly suspended the EA, there has been growing political concern in Peel about the project’s fate.