Comment 69567

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted September 13, 2011 at 16:45:01 in reply to Comment 69564

Hey, I agree with you. I'm just saying that even from a pro-highway perspective, the mid pen doesn't make much sense.

Many American cities with less gridlock have more highways in parallel feeding into their urban cores. So there is logic in what they say - obviously, principles of traffic engineering disagree.

But either way, the mid-pen isn't in the right place to produce this effect. Is there really a massive demand from people in Caledonia or St. Catherines to go to Brantford, or to have a very roundabout route to the ETR and the 401? It's not like the 401 through Burlington/Oakville/Missauga is much better than the 403/QEW.

From a traffic perspective, the mid-pen seems like a solution looking for a problem. Which to me, obviously implies it's solving a different problem - the real problem it's solving is "where can we build more expressway-adjascent tract housing and box-malls and 1-story office parks within the GTHA?"

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