The Ontario Premier’s pitch to speed up traffic by tunnelling under Highway 401 is politically brilliant and otherwise dunderheaded
During the Wednesday evening rush hour, I found a bench on the north side of Bloor Street, just west of the University of Toronto, and started counting cars. And bikes. And subway riders.
As for the Bloor subway, it runs every two to three minutes at rush hour, so during my 12 minutes of car counting, there should have been at least four westbound trains. Each train can carryIf we assume the trains were only half full – a conservative assumption at rush hour – then 2,000 people passed beneath the road. That’s about 20 times the number of cars.He and his Transport Minister first hinted that they want to put a stop to any more bike lanes.
Leaving aside how expensive it will be to double-deck the 401 – $30-billion? $50-billion? More? – there’s the tiny problem that if the number of cars on the expressway doubles, then so must the number of cars driving to and from it. We’ll next need to double-deck the intersecting Highways 427, 410, 404, 403 and 400, the Don Valley Parkway, plus major north-south arteries from Hurontario to Markham Road.
Ridership could be higher if the Toronto Transit Commission ran more streetcars on the route, and if the city sped up travel by vigorously enforcing rules that aim to mostly keep cars off King Street. All of which would be good for drivers downtown.
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