Sorry, gridlock is unfixable
Which political candidates are lying when they promise to ease congestion on Toronto’s roads? All of them.
Sitting in traffic sucks.
And Statistics Canada tells us that we do a lot of it. The average
Toronto auto commuter spends an hour driving to and from work. So it’s
no mystery why pretty much all of the mayoral candidates—and the
provincial parties, too—are pitching solutions to traffic congestion in
the GTA. A new subway relief line, improved bus service, getting
streetcars off the roads, introducing higher-tech traffic signals,
rebuilding the Gardiner… the list gets longer every day. But the hard
truth is that none of these ideas will reduce traffic congestion. At
all.KEEP ON READING...
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