• Doubtful Duck 🦆@mastodon.socialOP
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    2 days ago

    @banana_wizardSama the 905 really cares about highway traffic. Most people in the suburbs can’t reach their workplace without getting on a highway. I’m not happy about it. I don’t like that they also like filling an F150’s worth of space for a single passenger, but it is what it is. If she wants to make a dent outside of Toronto and Hamilton, I’m not surprised she went in this direction. More broadly if we’re to address the problem with higher highway capacity, the 407 is the cheapest option.

    • moonbunny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      It’s kind of ironic that the buyout of the 407 and removing tolls outright is considered a traffic capacity solution when the central part of the highway does get busy during rush hour, but not so busy to the point where volume slows down the flow of traffic.

      But definitely I can also see how that’s a popular move given how the average voter would believe that traffic would flow so much better without tolls without realizing the implication that more people (myself included) would be more drawn to using it.

      Not saying I’m completely against it, since the masses need to be won over anyways. I also think that there’s benefits to traffic outside of peak times, to an extent.

      • Doubtful Duck 🦆@mastodon.socialOP
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        1 day ago

        @moonbunny I think that’s pretty much it. Gotta make a tangible perceived difference. Then mass invest in alternatives that actually improve things long term. Then at some point play parts of the same class against each other - large vehicles vs smaller vehicles to remove truck commuters from the roads.

    • banana_wizardSama@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      that’s fair. i read that doug is purposely keeping it vague to the press re: their actual plan even though the pc floated the idea not long ago.