Comment 23209

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted May 16, 2008 at 12:05:54

DavidG,

There are currently some alternatives:

Travelling to Downtown: Main to Dundurn to York. Travelling to Dundas: Cannon to Dundurn to King.

Of course, two way conversion of Main, King, York, Cannon would provide even more alternatives for drivers!

However, even in the unlikely event that your total average trip speed decreased over 40% from the current value of about 33 km/h (based on Google maps value) to 20 km/h your approx 7.6 km trip from Dundas to downtown would only take 9 minutes longer than the current Google estimated time of 14 minutes ... is 9 minutes longer really a disaster? You might even consider taking LRT to get there a bit faster.

I can no longer find the original article on the absence of huge traffic jams, but here's some evidence from USAToday:

"the traffic nightmare that state and local officials feared in downtown Minneapolis did not materialize Monday."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007...

The reports I read indicated that the the "traffic nightmare" never did materialize (partly due to efficient detour information provided electronically to drivers).

Interestingly, the proposed replacement bridge will be "Light rail ready"!

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