The closest the premier came to providing a cost estimate Wednesday was that he doesn't think the project would cost 'hundreds of billions of dollars.'
TORONTO — Ontario is exploring the idea of digging a massive tunnel under Highway 401 to move traffic and transit across the Toronto area, with Premier Doug Ford pledging to build it regardless of what a feasibility study says."It will be one of the world's longest tunnels," he said at a news conference in Toronto alongside Highway 401."The reason we're having a feasibility study is it's going to determine the length," he said.
"It's something that you have to be a visionary," he said. "You have to look at the cost of $11 billion a year it's costing our economy, not to mention how do you put time on people's lives that are stuck in traffic?" "Well after we're gone, well after, you know, when I'm pushing up tulips somewhere, that road is going to be around for 75 years, 100 years, the tunnel," he said. "So just put a tulip for me on there somewhere."
"Drivers in the Toronto area spend 98 hours every year stuck in rush-hour traffic when they'd rather be home with their family, spending time with friends and loved ones," Ford said. "This is a serious issue — gridlock, congestion — but this is not a serious proposal. This is not a serious premier. It is a silly thought from a government that has run out of ideas.""The idea that this would ever get built under this , let alone be good for traffic at all, is a complete joke," he wrote on social media.
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